Ustatochoerus major

Ustatochoerus major

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UstatochoerusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiocene — about 47 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 48 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12.5 Mya9.4 Mya23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

48 occurrences of Ustatochoerus major 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

48 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

9 formations

Ash Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.87°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 99.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 102.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WCoetas — 35.40°N, 101.90°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSanta Margarita — 35.13°N, 118.82°WPopotosa — 33.80°N, 106.90°W

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The named rock units Ustatochoerus major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ustatochoerus major and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ustatochoerus major and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Ustatochoerus major, 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

15 references

Each of the 48 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Ustatochoerus major

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ustatochoerus major 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.

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What may have been alongside itUstatochoerus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1858)