Orretherium tzen
No picture of Orretherium tzen was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Orretherium tzen, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrretheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Orretherium tzen on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Orretherium tzen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orretherium tzen and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Orretherium tzen and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- ? Coniophiidae indet.1 site
- Anura1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Bulimulidae1 site
- Bulimulus1 site
- Calyptocephalellidae1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Coelostemma patagonica1 site
- Enantiornithes1 site
- Fusioolithus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Kank australis1 site
- Lilloiconcha novasi1 site
- Madtsoiidae1 site
- Magallanodon baikashkenke1 site
- Magallanodon terrwerr1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Megaraptora1 site
- Meridiolestida1 site
- Naesiotus sp.1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Patagorhynchus pascuali1 site
- Physella1 site
- Physidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Orretherium tzen, 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- New fossil mammal remains from the Chorrillo Formation (Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina1
- New cladotherian mammal from southern Chile and the evolution of mesungulatid meridiolestidans at the dusk of the Mesozoic era1
Each of the 2 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 Orretherium tzen was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Orretherium tzen, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orretherium tzen 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 itOrretherium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martinelli et al. 2021