Schizotheriinae

Chalicotheriidae is an extinct family of herbivorous, perissodactyl mammals. Unlike living odd-toed ungulates, chalicotheres bore large claws on their hands rather than hooves, thought to have been used for grasping vegetation, with their dentition being adapted for browsing. The family is known from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene, reached its greatest diversity in the Miocene, and is known from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. Asia appears to have been the main centre of diversification for the group.

Schizotheriinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChalicotheriidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 3 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 52 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 70 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 70 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.2–6.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.2–5.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.2–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–199 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya30.1 Mya199 ka

70 occurrences of Schizotheriinae 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

70 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

20 formations

Sheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WShungura — 5.10°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EVogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WXianshuihe — 36.06°N, 103.79°EXianshuihe — 36.16°N, 103.59°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°ECalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WSalt Lake — 41.50°N, 112.90°WAstoria — 44.70°N, 124.06°W"Madison Valley Equivalent" — 45.20°N, 112.00°WChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°ECarpenter Ranch — 42.24°N, 104.22°WLas Cascadas — 9.06°N, 79.67°WNea Messimvria — 40.74°N, 22.86°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°E

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The named rock units Schizotheriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizotheriinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Schizotheriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,012 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Schizotheriinae, 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

42 references

Each of the 70 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. 30 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 content1

Picture of Schizotheriinae

Credit
Postdlf
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizotheriinae 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Holland and Peterson 1913)