Teleoceras americanum
No picture of Teleoceras americanum 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 Teleoceras americanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeleocerasPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Teleoceras
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Teleoceras
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Teleoceras americanum 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
11 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Teleoceras americanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Teleoceras americanum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Teleoceras americanum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Protomarctus optatus8 sites
- Merychyus relictus7 sites
- Tylocephalonyx skinneri7 sites
- Aphelops megalodus6 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens6 sites
- Osbornodon fricki6 sites
- Acritohippus tertius5 sites
- Archaeohippus penultimus5 sites
- Brachycrus laticeps5 sites
- Leptocyon leidyi5 sites
- Merychippus primus4 sites
- Sinclairomeryx riparius4 sites
- Amphicyon3 sites
- Bouromeryx americanus3 sites
- Subdromomeryx antilopinus3 sites
- Blastomeryx gemmifer2 sites
- Cynelos2 sites
- Merycodus sabulonis2 sites
- Peraceras profectum2 sites
- Pliocyon2 sites
- Pseudaelurus validus2 sites
- Acris1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Amphicyon frendens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Teleoceras americanum, 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
2 referencesEach of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Teleoceras americanum 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 Teleoceras americanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Teleoceras americanum was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTeleoceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yatkola and Tanner 1979)