Paratapirus intermedius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParatapirusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
8 occurrences of Paratapirus intermedius 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
- Sense Schichten Formation1
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The named rock units Paratapirus intermedius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paratapirus intermedius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paratapirus intermedius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Brachyodus3 sites
- Cynelos helbingi3 sites
- Phoberocyon3 sites
- Protaceratherium minutum3 sites
- Andegameryx2 sites
- Aureliachoerus aurelianensis2 sites
- Cainotherium lintillae2 sites
- Diaceratherium2 sites
- Ligeromeryx praestans2 sites
- Oriomeryx2 sites
- Plesiaceratherium platyodon2 sites
- Steneofiber depereti2 sites
- Suidae2 sites
- Acrodelphinidae1 site
- Amphictis1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Amphicyon major1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphimoschus ponteleviensis1 site
- Andrias scheuchzeri1 site
- Ballusia elmensis1 site
- Bunolistriodon1 site
- Carcharias acutissimus1 site
- Carcharias crassidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paratapirus intermedius, 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- Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Swiss Molasse Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene transition4
- La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)2
- Le site paléontologique du Grand Morier (Pont-Boutard, Indre-et-Loire, France): contexte géologique et détail biostratigraphique des formations cénozoïques à partir des assemblages de vertébrés fossiles1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
Each of the 8 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 Paratapirus intermedius 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 Paratapirus intermedius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paratapirus intermedius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itParatapirus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1885