Paroreodon parvus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParoreodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
- 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.
9 occurrences of Paroreodon parvus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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 Paroreodon parvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paroreodon parvus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Paroreodon parvus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Promerycochoerus superbus7 sites
- Eporeodon occidentalis5 sites
- Daphoenus4 sites
- Oreodontoides oregonensis4 sites
- Paradaphoenus cuspigerus4 sites
- Agriochoerus guyotianus3 sites
- Curvellipsoentomoolithus laddi3 sites
- Desmatolagus3 sites
- Dyticonastis rensbergeri3 sites
- Florentiamys3 sites
- Gentilicamelus sternbergi3 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus3 sites
- Hypsiops3 sites
- Leidymys3 sites
- Merycoides3 sites
- Miohippus3 sites
- Protosciurus mengi3 sites
- Agriochoerus2 sites
- Capacikala gradatus2 sites
- Daeodon2 sites
- Entoptychus2 sites
- Entoptychus wheelerensis2 sites
- Herpetotherium merriami2 sites
- Kalobatippus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paroreodon parvus, 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
3 references- A revision of the biostratigraphy of oreodonts (superfamily Merycoidodontoidea) in the John Day region of Oregon, USA5
- Revised chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly Members), Oregon, with implications for updated calibration of the Arikareean North American land mammal age3
- Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts1
Each of the 9 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

Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Paroreodon parvus · ypm:vp:12415
No picture of Paroreodon parvus 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 Paroreodon parvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParoreodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thorpe 1921)