Tapirus

Tapirus is a genus of tapir which contains the living tapir species. The Malayan tapir is usually included in Tapirus as well, although some authorities have moved it into its own genus, Acrocodia.

Tapirus

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
tapirPBDB
Sits inside
TapiridaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 312 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 312 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 312 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 312 occurrencesPleistocene — about 217 of 312 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 31 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 50 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 164 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

312 occurrences of Tapirus 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

312 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

55 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WSolimões — 10.95°S, 69.62°WSolimões — 9.35°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 8.97°S, 72.80°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.87°WTouro Passo — 30.40°S, 56.49°WBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°WHungry Valley — 34.71°N, 118.81°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WPalomas — 33.10°N, 107.30°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WLa Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Tapirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 220 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tapirus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tapirus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,074 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 287 sites for Tapirus, and this reads 240 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

176 references

Each of the 312 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. 164 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 content3

Picture of Tapirus

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
TAPIRUS INDICUS · UWBM:Mammalogy:UWBM:Mamm:82386

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
zmmu
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itTapiridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brisson 1762