Procranioceras skinneri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProcraniocerasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Dromomerycidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromomerycidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 870 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
20 occurrences of Procranioceras skinneri 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
20 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
3 formations
- Wood Mountain Formation8
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group6
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group1
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The named rock units Procranioceras skinneri 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.
Procranioceras skinneri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Procranioceras skinneri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Eucastor tortus9 sites
- Aelurodon ferox8 sites
- Hipparionini8 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis7 sites
- Hypohippus osborni7 sites
- Leptocyon vafer7 sites
- Protohippus perditus7 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus7 sites
- Ustatochoerus medius7 sites
- Calippus placidus6 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis6 sites
- Merycodus warreni6 sites
- Mylagaulidae6 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius6 sites
- Trilophodon osborni6 sites
- Archaeolaginae5 sites
- Carpocyon compressus5 sites
- Parahippus cognatus5 sites
- Peraceras superciliosum5 sites
- Pliohippus mirabilis5 sites
- Procamelus occidentalis5 sites
- Teleoceras5 sites
- Aepycamelus robustus4 sites
- Amphicyonidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Procranioceras skinneri, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals18
- Mammalian biochronology and marine-nonmarine correlations in the Neogene of Florida1
- Taphonomy and population dynamics of an Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna, Know County, Nebraska1
Each of the 20 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 Procranioceras skinneri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- FunkMonk
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Procranioceras skinneri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProcranioceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frick 1937)