Prosthennops

Prosthennops is a genus of extinct peccaries that lived in North and Central America between the middle Miocene and lower Pliocene.

Prosthennops

NPS Photo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TayassuinaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Tayassuidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 25 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.9–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.6–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–900 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.5 Mya4.7 Mya16.8 Mya900 ka

28 occurrences of Prosthennops 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

28 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

10 formations

Goliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.15°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WEllensburg — 46.46°N, 120.64°WBlanco — 28.53°N, 97.74°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°W

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The named rock units Prosthennops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prosthennops and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prosthennops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Prosthennops, 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

20 references

Each of the 28 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Prosthennops

Credit
NPS Photo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Prosthennops sp. · joda:1320

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTayassuinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Gidley 1904