Tragocerus
Searched as Tragocerus amaltheus parvidens. The Paleobiology Database treats Tragocerus as the accepted name.
No picture of Tragocerus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tragocerus itself, so it was not used. 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 Tragocerus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BovidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tragocerus 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
2 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.
Tragocerus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tragocerus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
467 taxa- Gazella16 sites
- Hipparion16 sites
- Hipparion depereti13 sites
- Sus11 sites
- Hyaena9 sites
- Mammut9 sites
- Aceratherium8 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici8 sites
- Gazella gaudryi8 sites
- Rhinoceros8 sites
- Dicerorhinus7 sites
- Ictitherium7 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum6 sites
- Helicotragus6 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi6 sites
- Palaeoreas lindermayeri6 sites
- Palaeoryx6 sites
- Palaeotragus6 sites
- Aceratherium incisivum5 sites
- Deinotherium5 sites
- Giraffa5 sites
- Tetralophodon longirostris5 sites
- Cetacea4 sites
- Chilotherium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Tragocerus, 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 references- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
- Die fossilen Cavicornier von Samos1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Tragocerus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tragocerus itself, so it was not used.
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 Tragocerus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tragocerus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBovidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1861