Eremotherium laurillardi

Eremotherium laurillardi

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EremotheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Megatheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Megatheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 198 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene — about 96 of 97 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 97 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 16 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences210 ka – 11.7 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Eremotherium laurillardi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

97 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

6 formations

Tablazo — 1.24°S, 80.82°WInaja — 9.07°S, 38.31°WLadson — 33.17°N, 81.03°WTen Mile Hill — 32.97°N, 80.17°WPisco — 3.65°S, 80.60°WChapala — 20.30°N, 103.20°W

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The named rock units Eremotherium laurillardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eremotherium laurillardi and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eremotherium laurillardi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Eremotherium laurillardi, 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

53 references

Each of the 97 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Eremotherium laurillardi

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Everything alive alongside itEremotherium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lund 1842)