Parablastomeryx

Parablastomeryx

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlastomerycinaePBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Moschidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Moschidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesMiocene19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16.3 Mya12.5 Mya19 Mya8.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Parablastomeryx 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

10 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

8 formations

Ash Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WMarks Head — 29.90°N, 82.10°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.62°WMascall — 44.52°N, 119.67°W

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The named rock units Parablastomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parablastomeryx and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parablastomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Parablastomeryx, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Parablastomeryx

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 Parablastomeryx 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 itBlastomerycinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frick 1937)