Adinotherium

Adinotherium is an extinct genus of toxodontid, large bodied hoofed ungulates which inhabited South America during the Middle to Late Miocene, from 17.5 to 6.8 Ma and existed for approximately 10.7 million years, Santacrucian to Huayquerian in the South American land mammal ages (SALMA). Fossils of Adinotherium have been found in the Santa Cruz and Ituzaingó Formations of Argentina and the Chucal and Río Frías Formations of Chile.

Adinotherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NesodontinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 5 Mya.

Miocene — about 46 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17.5 Mya8 Mya21.5 Mya4.5 Mya

46 occurrences of Adinotherium 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

46 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

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.36°S, 71.84°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.34°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 72.10°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 51.60°S, 69.56°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WRío Frías — 44.58°S, 71.23°WRío Yuca — 8.97°N, 70.08°WCerro Bandera — 39.27°S, 69.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.63°S, 72.47°W

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

Adinotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Adinotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Adinotherium, 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

18 references

Each of the 46 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. 6 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 Adinotherium

Credit
Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adinotherium 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887