Titanotylopus

Titanotylopus is an extinct genus of camel, endemic to North America from the late Hemphillian stage of the Miocene through the Irvingtonian stage of the Pleistocene. It was one of the last surviving North American camels; after its extinction, only Camelops remained.

Titanotylopus

Dawn Pedersen · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CameliniPBDB
Diet
browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 210 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence330 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7 Mya1.4 Mya9.9 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Titanotylopus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

15 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

4 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WBon Homme Gravel — 43.00°N, 97.40°W

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The named rock units Titanotylopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanotylopus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Titanotylopus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Titanotylopus, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 Titanotylopus

Credit
Dawn Pedersen
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itCamelini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barbour and Schultz 1934