Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Tapirus (Helicotapirus)PBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Tapirus
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Tapirus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 81 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 44 of 44 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences210 ka – 129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

44 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

4 formations

Fort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WLadson — 33.17°N, 81.03°WBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°W

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The named rock units Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

679 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis, 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

32 references

Each of the 44 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. 19 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

Laser scan

Licence
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Specimen
Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis · uf:uf:DMAS 118

No picture of Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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What may have been alongside itTapirus (Helicotapirus) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sellards 1918)