Cramauchenia normalis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CramaucheniaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 17.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cramauchenia normalis 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 Cramauchenia normalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cramauchenia normalis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cramauchenia normalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Eoviscaccia australis3 sites
- Banderomys leanzai2 sites
- Caviocricetus lucasi2 sites
- Cephalomys arcidens2 sites
- Hegetotheriidae2 sites
- Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus2 sites
- Proeutatus2 sites
- Protypotherium2 sites
- Prozaedyus2 sites
- Abderites1 site
- Acarechimys leucotheae1 site
- Acdestodon bonapartei1 site
- Acdestoides praecursor1 site
- Ancylocoelus frequens1 site
- Andrewsornis1 site
- Archaeohyrax patagonicus1 site
- Archaeophylus patrius1 site
- Argyrohyrax proavus1 site
- Asmodeus osborni1 site
- Astegotheriini1 site
- Asteromys punctus1 site
- Australohyaena antiqua1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Carlothentes chubutensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cramauchenia normalis, 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
2 references- First skull and associated postcranial bones of Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) from the Deseadan SALMA (late Oligocene) of Cabeza Blanca (Chubut, Argentina)2
- Estratigrafía y vertebrados (Aves y Mammalia) de la Formación Cerro Bandera, Mioceno Temprano de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina2
Each 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
Media content1

Picture of Cramauchenia normalis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Smokeybjb
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cramauchenia normalis 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 itCramauchenia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1902