Notopithecidae

Notopithecidae is a family of typotherine notoungulates known from Paleogene deposits of the San Juan Formation, Argentina. The name of the clade derives from an error, Florentino Ameghino assumed the namesake of the family, Notopithecus, was a primate.

Notopithecidae

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
NotoungulataPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 89 occurrencesEocene — about 86 of 89 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 89 occurrencesOligocene58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 14 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 15 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 15 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya33.9 Mya57.6 Mya26.7 Mya

89 occurrences of Notopithecidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

89 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

7 formations

Sarmiento — 44.42°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 44.83°S, 68.25°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.78°S, 68.47°WSarmiento — 45.00°S, 67.70°WSarmiento — 46.74°S, 67.11°WSarmiento — 44.35°S, 69.78°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 69.67°WAbanico — 34.98°S, 70.43°WAbanico — 34.83°S, 70.50°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°WKoluel Kaike — 45.27°S, 67.00°WLas Flores — 45.60°S, 69.08°WGuabirotuba — 25.51°S, 49.34°WPuesto Fortunata — 36.84°S, 69.26°W

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The named rock units Notopithecidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notopithecidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Notopithecidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

338 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Notopithecidae, 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

20 references

Each of the 89 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. 8 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 Notopithecidae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNotoungulata through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1897)