Orthomyctera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaviidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Caviidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Caviidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 13 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 27 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–4.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.0–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13.82 Mya3.6 Mya20.9 Mya2.1 Mya

27 occurrences of Orthomyctera on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

27 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

16 formations

Cerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 38.74°S, 62.21°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WIrene — 38.83°S, 60.54°WIrene — 38.58°S, 60.60°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.95°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.99°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WQuehua — 20.00°S, 67.00°WMuyu Huasi — 19.04°S, 65.26°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WPuerto Belgrano — 38.98°S, 61.82°WGuanaco — 24.26°S, 65.33°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°WBrochero — 31.92°S, 64.57°W

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The named rock units Orthomyctera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthomyctera and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Orthomyctera and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Orthomyctera, 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 27 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 content0

No picture of Orthomyctera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthomyctera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889