Teleoceras

Teleoceras is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid endemic to North America during the Neogene.

Teleoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TeleoceratinaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 348 occurrencesMiocene — about 329 of 348 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 348 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 348 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 21 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 27 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 28 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 28 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 25 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16.3 Mya4.7 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

348 occurrences of Teleoceras 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

348 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

57 formations

Ash Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 99.70°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 43.20°N, 99.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WFleming — 30.72°N, 95.28°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WFleming — 29.80°N, 96.90°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WFleming — 30.10°N, 96.10°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WOgallala — 39.80°N, 99.40°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WOgallala — 39.02°N, 99.52°WOgallala — 35.70°N, 102.30°WOgallala — 35.40°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 39.95°N, 99.53°WOgallala — 35.80°N, 99.63°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WPeace River — 27.84°N, 81.86°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WChamita — 35.50°N, 106.20°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WGracias — 14.67°N, 88.64°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°W"Coal Valley" — 39.00°N, 119.20°WEsmeralda — 37.96°N, 118.03°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WCoal Valley — 38.50°N, 118.30°WCoal Valley — 38.85°N, 119.33°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WAlkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WMonarch Mill — 39.50°N, 118.50°WMonarch Mill — 39.20°N, 117.90°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°W

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The named rock units Teleoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 106 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Teleoceras and its relatives

Miocene

Where Teleoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,370 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 336 sites for Teleoceras, 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

100 references

Each of the 348 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. 88 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 content2

Picture of Teleoceras

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTeleoceratina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hatcher 1894