Problastomeryx primus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblastomeryxPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Moschidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Moschidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
10 occurrences of Problastomeryx primus 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
10 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
5 formations
- Rosebud Formation1
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Runningwater Formation1
- Oakville Formation1
- Virgin Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Problastomeryx primus 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.
Problastomeryx primus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Problastomeryx primus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Ticholeptus zygomaticus3 sites
- Alphagaulus pristinus2 sites
- Aphelops megalodus2 sites
- Daphoenodon2 sites
- Desmathyus pinensis2 sites
- Desmatippus avus2 sites
- Diceratherium2 sites
- Diceratherium annectens2 sites
- Diceratherium niobrarense2 sites
- Dromomerycidae2 sites
- Menoceras barbouri2 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus2 sites
- Merychippus californicus2 sites
- Michenia2 sites
- Moropus merriami2 sites
- Paracynarctus kelloggi2 sites
- Phlaocyon minor2 sites
- Protomarctus optatus2 sites
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anchitheriinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Problastomeryx primus, 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
6 references- Systematics of the musk deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) from the Miocene of North America4
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units2
- Systematics of the Musk Deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) From the Miocene of Nevada1
- Coombs, 19841
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
- Osteology of Blastomeryx and phylogeny of the American Cervidae1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Problastomeryx primus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Problastomeryx primus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProblastomeryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1908)