Ozotoceros bezoarticus

The Pampas deer is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as veado-campeiro in Portuguese and as venado or gama in Spanish. It is the only species in the genus Ozotoceros.

Ozotoceros bezoarticus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Pampas deerPBDB
Sits inside
OzotocerosPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 400 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 11 occurrences420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence30 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences900 ka0 Mya

11 occurrences of Ozotoceros bezoarticus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

11 occurrences

These 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

5 formations

Sopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WLuján — 34.58°S, 60.96°WLibertad — 34.53°S, 56.18°W

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The named rock units Ozotoceros bezoarticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ozotoceros bezoarticus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ozotoceros bezoarticus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ozotoceros bezoarticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

10 references

Each of the 11 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ozotoceros bezoarticus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ozotoceros bezoarticus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOzotoceros through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linné 1758