Tomarctus brevirostris

Tomarctus brevirostris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TomarctusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Canidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Canidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 320 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Miocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesMiocene19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya – 15.98 Mya19 Mya11.1 Mya

21 occurrences of Tomarctus brevirostris 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

21 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

8 formations

Olcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WCucaracha — 9.10°N, 79.70°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°WMonarch Mill — 39.20°N, 117.90°WMonarch Mill — 39.39°N, 117.98°WCaliente — 35.10°N, 120.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°W

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

Tomarctus brevirostris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tomarctus brevirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Tomarctus brevirostris, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 Tomarctus brevirostris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Cope 1873