Plesiomegatherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegatheriinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Megatheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Megatheriidae
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 8 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 10 Mya to 400 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–700 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences700 ka–350 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8 Mya5 Mya10.5 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Plesiomegatherium 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

5 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

5 formations

San José — 34.70°S, 56.75°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WCodore — 11.20°N, 70.25°WToro Negro — 28.69°S, 68.31°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°W

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The named rock units Plesiomegatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plesiomegatherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plesiomegatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Plesiomegatherium, 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

5 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Plesiomegatherium 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 Plesiomegatherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiomegatherium 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 itMegatheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1911