Peratherium

Peratherium is a genus of metatherian mammals in the family Herpetotheriidae that lived in Europe and Africa from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene. Species include the following:Peratherium africanum Peratherium antiquum Peratherium bretouense Peratherium cayluxi Peratherium constans Peratherium cuvieri Peratherium elegans Peratherium lavergnense Peratherium matronense Peratherium monspeliense Peratherium perrierense Peratherium sudrei

Peratherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HerpetotheriidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpetotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesEocene — about 64 of 89 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 89 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 89 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51.1 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

89 occurrences of Peratherium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

89 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

34 formations

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WCalcaires de Vacheres — 43.87°N, 5.52°EUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 50.94°N, 1.33°WJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°EWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WEntrala — 42.92°N, 3.50°WPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°ECalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKortijk Clay — 50.87°N, 4.42°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WCalcaire de Ventenac — 43.08°N, 2.50°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°E

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The named rock units Peratherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peratherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Peratherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Peratherium, 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

62 references

Each of the 89 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. 50 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 content1

Picture of Peratherium

Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peratherium 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Aymard 1850