Mesotherium cristatum

Mesotherium cristatum

Henry Woodward · Public Domain · 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
MesotheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.75 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–933 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences933 ka–817 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences817 ka–700 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence700 ka–583 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence583 ka–467 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence467 ka–350 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences350 ka–233 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233 ka–117 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.75 Mya129 ka3.5 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Mesotherium cristatum 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

15 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

Miramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WMiramar — 37.87°S, 57.51°WMiramar — 37.98°S, 57.59°WEnsenada — 34.53°S, 58.47°WEnsenada — 38.02°S, 58.39°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°W"Pampean" — 38.16°S, 58.03°WPampean — 34.25°S, 59.47°WPampean? — 32.03°S, 64.19°W

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The named rock units Mesotherium cristatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesotherium cristatum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mesotherium cristatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Mesotherium cristatum, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Mesotherium cristatum

Credit
Henry Woodward
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesotherium cristatum 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 itMesotherium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Serres 1857)