Protoceras skinneri
No picture of Protoceras skinneri 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 Protoceras skinneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocerasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protoceras skinneri 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
2 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.
Protoceras skinneri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Protoceras skinneri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Agriochoeridae1 site
- Ansomys cyanotephrus1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Cynarctoides roii1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Diceratherium armatum1 site
- Elomeryx garbanii1 site
- Entelodontidae1 site
- Hesperopetes blacki1 site
- Hesperopetes jamesi1 site
- Leptauchenia major1 site
- Merycoidodon1 site
- Mesoreodon minor1 site
- Miohippus obliquidens1 site
- Ocajila macdonaldi1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
- Woodoceras brachyops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protoceras skinneri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota1
- The Protoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae) and the systematics of the Protoceratidae1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Protoceras skinneri 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 Protoceras skinneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtoceras through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patton and Taylor 1973