Ramoceros

Ramoceros is an extinct genus of the artiodactyl family Antilocapridae endemic to Middle Miocene (Clarendonian) North America.

Ramoceros

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
MerycodontinaePBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Miocene — about 27 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPliocene16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.7–9.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.2–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12.5 Mya9.4 Mya16.8 Mya4.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Ramoceros 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

27 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

Valentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WPawnee Creek Beds — 40.80°N, 103.10°WZia — 35.70°N, 107.00°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°Wreferred Chamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Ramoceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ramoceros and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ramoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Ramoceros, 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

12 references

Each of the 27 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 Ramoceros

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ramoceros 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.

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 itMerycodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frick 1937