Uintatherium

Uintatherium is an extinct genus of dinoceratan mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch. Two species are currently recognized: U. anceps is found in the United States and lived during the early to middle Eocene, while U. insperatus is found in China and lived during the middle and late Eocene. The first fossils of Uintatherium were recovered from the Fort Bridger Basin and were initially believed to belong to a new species of brontothere. Several previously recognized species, as well as genera such as Edward Drinker Cope's Loxolophodon and Othniel Charles Marsh's Tinoceras, are now assigned to Uintatherium anceps.

Uintatherium

Shadowgate from Novara, ITALY · 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
UintatheriinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dinocerata
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dinocerata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Length
4 mWikidata
Mass
4500 kgWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 35 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya – 45.9 Mya56.5 Mya37.2 Mya

35 occurrences of Uintatherium 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

35 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

12 formations

Bridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WAycross — 43.20°N, 108.20°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WSantiago — 33.10°N, 117.29°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WScripps — 32.89°N, 117.25°WNomogen — 40.00°N, 111.00°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EUqbulak — 46.27°N, 88.02°EGuanzhuang — 35.91°N, 117.78°E

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The named rock units Uintatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Uintatherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Uintatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Uintatherium, 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

16 references

Each of the 35 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Uintatherium

Credit
Shadowgate from Novara, ITALY
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itUintatheriinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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