Mesotheriidae

Trachytherus Ameghino, 1889, a relative of Mesotheriidae — not Mesotheriidae itself

Not Mesotheriidae. This is Trachytherus Ameghino, 1889, a relative — both are Mesotheriidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TypotheriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 137 occurrencesOligocene — about 17 of 137 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 79 of 137 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 137 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 137 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

137 occurrences of Mesotheriidae 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

137 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

47 formations

Cerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 37.10°S, 62.79°WCerro Azul — 36.72°S, 64.30°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 36.84°S, 65.28°WCerro Azul — 36.94°S, 65.40°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WQuehua — 20.00°S, 67.00°WQuehua — 20.92°S, 66.22°WMiramar — 38.27°S, 57.85°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WMiramar — 37.87°S, 57.51°WMiramar — 37.98°S, 57.59°WUpper Moquegua — 17.21°S, 71.01°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.77°WHuaylas — 18.47°S, 69.57°WHuaylas — 18.42°S, 69.57°WMauri — 17.20°S, 69.00°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WMariño — 32.88°S, 68.94°WMariño — 32.95°S, 69.15°WPampean — 37.27°S, 64.57°WPampean — 34.25°S, 59.47°WEnsenada — 34.53°S, 58.47°WEnsenada — 38.02°S, 58.39°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WVorohué — 38.22°S, 57.73°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.25°S, 66.88°WChinches — 32.00°S, 69.74°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.95°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WNazareno — 21.67°S, 65.58°WChoquecota — 18.10°S, 67.92°WCasira — 22.02°S, 65.83°WRosa Pata — 17.40°S, 68.45°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°W

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The named rock units Mesotheriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesotheriidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mesotheriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

904 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Mesotheriidae, 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

69 references

Each of the 137 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. 57 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 content1

Picture of Trachytherus Ameghino, 1889

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesotheriidae 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 itTypotheria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alston 1876