Palaeothentes

Palaeothentes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeothentidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 75 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 71 of 75 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 36 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27.3 Mya13.82 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

75 occurrences of Palaeothentes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

75 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

10 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 49.56°S, 70.06°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.67°WPinturas — 46.99°S, 70.59°WPinturas — 48.90°S, 70.17°WPinturas — 48.97°S, 71.40°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Palaeothentes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeothentes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palaeothentes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Palaeothentes, 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

17 references

Each of the 75 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. 5 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 content2

Picture of Palaeothentes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Palaeothentes minutus · amnh:fm:9122

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPalaeothentidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887