Synthetoceras tricornatus

Synthetoceras tricornatus

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
SynthetocerasPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Synthetoceras
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Protoceratidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocene13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.8–9.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13 Mya4.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Synthetoceras tricornatus 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

12 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

5 formations

Goliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WClarendon Beds — 35.02°N, 100.82°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WCitronelle — 30.79°N, 88.10°W

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The named rock units Synthetoceras tricornatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Synthetoceras tricornatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Synthetoceras tricornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Synthetoceras tricornatus, 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

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Synthetoceras tricornatus

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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What may have been alongside itSynthetoceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stirton 1932