Pliomegatherium

No picture of Pliomegatherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliomegatherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 400 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–850 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5 Mya3.6 Mya8.5 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Pliomegatherium on record. 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

4 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

3 formations

Ituzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WSan José — 34.70°S, 56.75°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°W

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

Found in the same rock

199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pliomegatherium, 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

Each of the 4 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 Pliomegatherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliomegatherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Kraglievich 1930