Teleolophus

Teleolophus is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals related to tapirs that flourished in the Eocene of Asia.

No picture of Teleolophus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Teleolophus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TapiridaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Tapiridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 29 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

29 occurrences of Teleolophus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

29 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

15 formations

Ergilin Dzo — 44.00°N, 111.00°EErgilin Dzo — 43.75°N, 111.92°EHetaoyuan — 33.00°N, 111.42°EChonkurchak — 42.52°N, 76.17°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EGuanzhuang — 35.91°N, 117.78°EChaganbulage — 38.83°N, 105.67°EUlan Shireh — 42.52°N, 110.97°EKuldana — 33.78°N, 72.68°EKolpak — 45.89°N, 80.56°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°EKyzylbulak — 47.37°N, 60.87°EObayla — 48.07°N, 84.12°ELumeiyi — 24.76°N, 103.33°EDongjun — 23.58°N, 107.23°E

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The named rock units Teleolophus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Teleolophus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Teleolophus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Teleolophus, 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

18 references

Each of the 29 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. 6 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

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No picture of Teleolophus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1925