Cullinia

Cullinia is an extinct genus of litoptern, an order of South American native ungulates that included horse-like and camel-like animals such as Macrauchenia. It is only known from fragmentary remains. Cullinia levis is known from Chasicoan remains found in the Arroyo Chasicó Formation of Argentina, and remains from the Brazilian state of Acre and the Huayquerian Ituzaingó Formation have been assigned to Cullinia sp..

No picture of Cullinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cullinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya4.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Cullinia 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 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

4 formations

Solimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°W

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

Cullinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cullinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cullinia, 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

3 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Cullinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Cullinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cullinia 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

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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. Cabrera and Kraglievich 1931