Turpanotherium
No picture of Turpanotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Turpanotherium 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 Turpanotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaceratheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
8 occurrences of Turpanotherium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Taoshuyuanzi Formation3
- Xianshuihe Formation2
- Jiaozigou Formation1
- Hongliugou Formation1
- Wulanbulage Formation1
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The named rock units Turpanotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turpanotherium and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Turpanotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Aprotodon lanzhouensis3 sites
- Paraceratherium lepidum3 sites
- Dzungariotherium turfanensis2 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus2 sites
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphicynodon1 site
- Aprotodon1 site
- Ardynia1 site
- Ardynia altidentata1 site
- Chalicotheriinae1 site
- Cricetops dormitor1 site
- Cricetops minor1 site
- Cyclomylus1 site
- Desmatolagus gobiensis1 site
- Desmatolagus pusillus1 site
- Desmatolagus robustus1 site
- Didymoconus1 site
- Dzungariotherium orgosensis1 site
- Eucricetodon caducus1 site
- Eumeryx1 site
- Gobisorex kingae1 site
- Hyracodontidae1 site
- Karakoromys decessus1 site
- Lophiomeryx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Turpanotherium, 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- Paracerathere Fossils of China7
- Indricotheres (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from Oligocene in Linxia Basin, Gansu, China1
Each of the 8 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 Turpanotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Turpanotherium 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 Turpanotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turpanotherium 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParaceratheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qiu and Wang 2007