Molassitherium albigense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MolassitheriumPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Molassitherium albigense on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Molassitherium albigense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Molassitherium albigense and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Molassitherium albigense and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Ronzotherium3 sites
- Cadurcotherium cayluxi2 sites
- Schizogliravus bruijni2 sites
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Anguis1 site
- Anoura1 site
- Anthracotherium magnum1 site
- Archaeomys gervaisi1 site
- Blainvillimys blainvillei1 site
- Boidea indet.1 site
- Bransatoglis concavidens1 site
- Bransatoglis fugax1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cetotheriopsis lintianus1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Dracaenosaurus croizeti1 site
- Dugongidae1 site
- Elomeryx crispus1 site
- Ergilemys1 site
- Eucricetodon collatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Molassitherium albigense, 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- Aubenas-les-Alpes, a forgotten Oligocene mammalian site in Provence (S-E France). Part I – Carnivora, Perissodactyla and Microflora5
- A new genus of Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Oligocene of Europe1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Molassitherium albigense 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 Molassitherium albigense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Molassitherium albigense 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 itMolassitherium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roman 1912)