Oxydactylus lacota
No picture of Oxydactylus lacota was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oxydactylus lacota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OxydactylusPBDB
- Diet
- browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Oxydactylus lacota on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Oxydactylus lacota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oxydactylus lacota and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oxydactylus lacota and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Desmathyus pinensis1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Hypsiops brachymelis1 site
- Megalictis ferox1 site
- Merychyus minimus1 site
- Merycoides longiceps1 site
- Mesoreodon minor1 site
- Michenia exilis1 site
- Nanotragulus1 site
- Phlaocyon minor1 site
- Problastomeryx primus1 site
- Promartes lepidus1 site
- Stenomylus hitchcocki1 site
- Stylemys nebrascensis1 site
- Submerycochoerus bannackensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oxydactylus lacota, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America1
- Two new species of Oxydactylus from the middle Miocene Rosebud Formation in western South Dakota1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Oxydactylus lacota was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oxydactylus lacota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oxydactylus lacota was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOxydactylus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Macdonald 1960