Tapirus priscus

Tapirus priscus is an extinct species of tapirid in the genus Tapirus that lived in Europe during the Late Miocene subepoch.

Tapirus priscus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
TapirusPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Tapirus
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Tapirus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.67 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya1.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Tapirus priscus 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

5 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

2 formations

Red Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Tapirus priscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tapirus priscus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tapirus priscus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tapirus priscus, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Tapirus priscus

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tapirus priscus · NHMUK:PAL:PV M 106902

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaup 1833