Protolabis heterodontus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtolabisPBDB
- 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 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
18 occurrences of Protolabis heterodontus 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
18 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
- Arikaree Formation7
- Ash Hollow Formation4
- Gracias Formation2
- Valentine Formation1
- Troublesome Formation1
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The named rock units Protolabis heterodontus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protolabis heterodontus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protolabis heterodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Borophaginae7 sites
- Archaeolaginae6 sites
- Procamelus grandis6 sites
- Equinae5 sites
- Gomphotherium5 sites
- Oreolagus nebrascensis5 sites
- Teleoceras major5 sites
- Aepycamelus4 sites
- Brachycrus laticeps4 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis4 sites
- Mesogaulus novellus4 sites
- Mesoscalops scopelotemos4 sites
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis4 sites
- Pliohippus pernix4 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum4 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni3 sites
- Brachycrus3 sites
- Geomyoidea3 sites
- Gerrhonotus3 sites
- Leptarctus3 sites
- Leptocyon3 sites
- Longirostromeryx wellsi3 sites
- Merycodus sabulonis3 sites
- Mioheteromyinae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Protolabis heterodontus, 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
7 references- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming7
- The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala: medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska. Part I: Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates2
- Late Cenozoic Vertebrates from Honduras and El Salvador2
- The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska2
- Additions to the Mission vertebrate fauna, Lower Pliocene of South Dakota1
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Protolabis heterodontus 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 Protolabis heterodontus, 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 itProtolabis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1874)