Tanymykter

Tanymykter is an extinct genus of camelid, endemic to North America. It lived during the Miocene epoch 20.4—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 4 million years. Fossils have been found from Wyoming and Nebraska to Santa Barbara County, California.

Tanymykter

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtolabinaePBDB
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 most 25 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9–9.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30 Mya4.8 Mya

13 occurrences of Tanymykter 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

13 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

Marsland — 42.10°N, 105.00°WMarsland — 42.00°N, 104.20°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.73°WSespe — 33.83°N, 117.79°WSespe — 33.83°N, 117.71°WBox Butte — 42.20°N, 103.10°WCaliente — 35.10°N, 120.00°W

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The named rock units Tanymykter has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tanymykter and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tanymykter and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Tanymykter, 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 13 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 Tanymykter

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Tanymykter 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.

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 itProtolabinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Honey and Taylor 1978