Rucervus eldii

Uncredited · 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
- RucervusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Rucervus eldii on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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.
Rucervus eldii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rucervus eldii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Muntiacus muntjak3 sites
- Arctonyx collaris2 sites
- Bos sauveli2 sites
- Bubalus bubalis2 sites
- Cervus unicolor2 sites
- Martes flavigula2 sites
- Panthera tigris2 sites
- Paradoxurus hermaphroditus2 sites
- Pongo pygmaeus2 sites
- Rhinoceros sondaicus2 sites
- Sus scrofa2 sites
- Tapirus indicus2 sites
- Ursus malayanus2 sites
- Ursus thibetanus2 sites
- Acanthion brachyurus1 site
- Ailuropoda baconi1 site
- Axis1 site
- Axis porcinus1 site
- Bandicota savilei1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Bos frontalis1 site
- Bos javanicus1 site
- Bovinae1 site
- Callosciurus finlaysoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rucervus eldii, 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- The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis1
- The faunal remains and worked bone1
- Extension of the geographic distribution of the giant panda (Ailuropoda) and search for the reasons for its progressive disappearance in Southeast Asia during the Latest Middle Pleistocene1
Each of the 3 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 Rucervus eldii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Rucervus eldii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRucervus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Clelland 1842)