Caroloameghinia mater

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaroloameghiniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Peradectidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
5 occurrences of Caroloameghinia mater 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Caroloameghinia mater has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caroloameghinia mater and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caroloameghinia mater and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Transpithecus obtentus5 sites
- Antepithecus brachystephanus4 sites
- Notostylops murinus4 sites
- Paginula parca4 sites
- Polydolops thomasi4 sites
- Albertogaudrya unica3 sites
- Didolodus multicuspis3 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta3 sites
- Notopithecus adapinus3 sites
- Polydolops serra3 sites
- Utaetus buccatus3 sites
- Amphidolops serrula2 sites
- Anisolambda fissidens2 sites
- Anisotemnus distentus2 sites
- Archaeopithecus rogeri2 sites
- Coona gaudryi2 sites
- Ernestokokenia nitida2 sites
- Eudolops tetragonus2 sites
- Isotemnus2 sites
- Isotemnus primitivus2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Marsupialia2 sites
- Maxschlosseria praeterita2 sites
- Notostylops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Caroloameghinia mater, 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
4 references- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I2
- Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia1
- Fossil Marsupialia in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle collected by André Tournouër from Patagonia, southern Argentina1
- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II1
Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Caroloameghinia mater
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCaroloameghinia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901