Paratoceras tedfordi

Paratoceras tedfordi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParatocerasPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Protoceratidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Protoceratidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30 Mya15.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Paratoceras tedfordi 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

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

2 formations

Balumtum Sandstone — 17.20°N, 92.63°WLas Cascadas — 9.06°N, 79.67°W

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The named rock units Paratoceras tedfordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paratoceras tedfordi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paratoceras tedfordi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paratoceras tedfordi, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

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. 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 Paratoceras tedfordi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paratoceras tedfordi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webb et al. 2003