Archaeosimos
No picture of Archaeosimos was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Archaeosimos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SimosthenuriniPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 8.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Archaeosimos 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Archaeosimos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeosimos and its relatives
MioceneWhere Archaeosimos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Balaenidae1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Isurus desorii1 site
- Lamna apiculata1 site
- Lamna compressa1 site
- Macropodidae1 site
- Odontaspis incurva1 site
- Oplegnathus manni1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Oxyrhina minuta1 site
- Phocidae1 site
- Sthenurus tindalei1 site
- Tjukuru wellsi1 site
- Wonambi naracoortensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeosimos, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Archaeosimos was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Archaeosimos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeosimos 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 itSimosthenurini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prideaux 2004