Oxyodontherium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacraucheniinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Oxyodontherium 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
5 occurrences- Miocene36%
- Pliocene44%
- Pleistocene20%
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 Oxyodontherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oxyodontherium and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Oxyodontherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Cardiomys2 sites
- Eumegamys2 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)2 sites
- Megatherium2 sites
- Myocastor2 sites
- Adinotherium1 site
- Amphiocnus paranense1 site
- Anatochoerus1 site
- Andalgalornis1 site
- Antifer crassus1 site
- Berroia1 site
- Brachytherium cuspidatum1 site
- Brachytherium gradatum1 site
- Briaromys1 site
- Briaromys trouessartianus1 site
- Caiman1 site
- Caiman australis1 site
- Caiman latirostris1 site
- Caiman yacare1 site
- Cantracavia1 site
- Carcharias cuspidatus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cardiatherium1 site
- Cardiatherium paranense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Oxyodontherium, 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
4 references- Miocene vertebrates from Entre Rios province, eastern Argentina2
- Updated data on Litopterna from the Huayquerian Stage/Age (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene) of central-east Argentina1
- Presence of Oxyodontherium (Macraucheniidae, Litopterna) in the Río Quinto Formation, San Luis (Argentina)1
- Tercera noticia sobre los vertebrados fosiles de las Arenas Puelchenses de Villa Ballester1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Oxyodontherium 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 Oxyodontherium, 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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What may have been alongside itMacraucheniinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1883