Pantotheria

Pantotheria is an abandoned taxon of Mesozoic mammals. This group is now considered an informal "wastebasket" taxon and has been replaced by Dryolestida as well as other groups. It is sometimes treated as an infraclass and older books refer to it as being related to symmetrodonts. One classification makes it an infraclass with a single order, Eupantotheria.

No picture of Pantotheria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Pantotheria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TheriaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences201.4 Mya59.24 Mya209 Mya53 Mya

14 occurrences of Pantotheria on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

14 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

8 formations

Morrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 44.49°N, 107.88°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WTendaguru — 9.67°S, 39.22°EKilmaluag — 57.17°N, 6.11°WExter — 48.55°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Pantotheria 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.

Pantotheria and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pantotheria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

322 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pantotheria, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content0

No picture of Pantotheria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Pantotheria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pantotheria 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.

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 itTheria through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1880)