Poebrotherium wilsoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoebrotheriumPBDB
- 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 least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 31.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 29.5 Mya.
26 occurrences of Poebrotherium wilsoni 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
26 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
4 formations
- Brule Formation · White River Group15
- White River Formation3
- Chadron Formation2
- Renova Formation1
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The named rock units Poebrotherium wilsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Poebrotherium wilsoni and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Poebrotherium wilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Hesperocyon gregarius17 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni13 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi12 sites
- Hyaenodon crucians11 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus11 sites
- Megalagus turgidus11 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii11 sites
- Daphoenus10 sites
- Ischyromys9 sites
- Archaeotherium mortoni8 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus8 sites
- Hyracodon nebraskensis8 sites
- Ischyromys typus8 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi8 sites
- Eumys elegans7 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus7 sites
- Brontotheriidae6 sites
- Dinictis6 sites
- Hypisodus minimus6 sites
- Miniochoerus gracilis6 sites
- Paratylopus labiatus6 sites
- Altasciurus relictus5 sites
- Didelphidae5 sites
- Ischyromys veterior5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Poebrotherium wilsoni, 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
8 references- Camelidae10
- Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming4
- Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska3
- Analysis of the Preservation of Community Structure in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals3
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado2
- Fossil mammals of the Lower Miocene White River beds. Collection of 18922
- Correlation of the early Oligocene (Chadronian) in northwestern Nebraska1
- Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation1
Each of the 26 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 content2

Picture of Poebrotherium wilsoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
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- Specimen
- Poebrotherium wilsoni · fmnh:uc:465
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPoebrotherium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1847