Telmatherium

Telmatherium is a genus of a North American brontothere. It lived during the Eocene epoch.

Telmatherium

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
BrontotheriinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya.

Eocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEocene52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45.9 Mya39.7 Mya51.6 Mya36.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Telmatherium 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

16 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

7 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WAycross — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.32°N, 108.38°WBaca — 34.00°N, 107.00°WHart Mine — 34.00°N, 107.00°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Telmatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Telmatherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Telmatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Telmatherium, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Telmatherium

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Telmatherium 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.

The description on this site

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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 itBrontotheriinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872