Paracosoryx loxoceros
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacosoryxPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paracosoryx loxoceros 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paracosoryx loxoceros 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.
Paracosoryx loxoceros and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paracosoryx loxoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Mylagaulidae2 sites
- Tamias ateles2 sites
- Aelurodon1 site
- Aelurodon asthenostylus1 site
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Aepycamelus stocki1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Bassariscus antiquus1 site
- Brachypsalis pachycephalus1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Caninae1 site
- Carpocyon compressus1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Cosoryx furcatus1 site
- Cricetinae1 site
- Cupidinimus1 site
- Dromomeryx borealis1 site
- Geomyidae1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Hypohippus affinis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paracosoryx loxoceros, 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
2 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America1
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 Paracosoryx loxoceros 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 Paracosoryx loxoceros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracosoryx loxoceros 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 itParacosoryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Furlong 1934)