Paramiolabis tenuis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParamiolabisPBDB
- 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 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Paramiolabis tenuis 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
8 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Paramiolabis tenuis 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.
Paramiolabis tenuis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paramiolabis tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Aepycamelus4 sites
- Leptocyon leidyi3 sites
- Parapliohippus carrizoensis3 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus2 sites
- Aphelops megalodus2 sites
- Merycodus joraki2 sites
- Proheteromys sulculus2 sites
- Protolabis saxeus2 sites
- Protomarctus optatus2 sites
- Tomarctus hippophaga2 sites
- Acritohippus stylodontus1 site
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Amphicyon frendens1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Aramornis longurio1 site
- Archaeohippus penultimus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Brachycrus laticeps1 site
- Brachypsalis matutinus1 site
- Burhinus lucorum1 site
- Buteogallus1 site
- Conuropsis fratercula1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paramiolabis tenuis, 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
5 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals4
- New Middle Miocene Camels from the Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley Badlands, California1
- Stratigraphy and geochronology of Miocene strata in the central Mojave Desert, California1
- Geology and mammalian biostratigraphy of a part of the northern Cady Mountains, Mojave Desert, California1
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska1
Each of the 8 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 Paramiolabis tenuis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Paramiolabis tenuis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itParamiolabis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1924)