Priscosiren atlantica
No picture of Priscosiren atlantica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Priscosiren atlantica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PriscosirenPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dugongidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sirenia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Priscosiren atlantica on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Priscosiren atlantica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Priscosiren atlantica and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Priscosiren atlantica and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Ashleychelys palmeri1 site
- Bairdemys healeyorum1 site
- Borikenomys praecursor1 site
- Caribeomys merzeraudi1 site
- Caviomorpha1 site
- Crenatosiren olseni1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Ginglymostomatidae1 site
- Metaxytherium albifontanum1 site
- Pelomedusidae1 site
- Thecachampsa carolinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Priscosiren atlantica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 reference- Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region: X. Priscosiren atlantica, gen. et sp. nov.2
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Priscosiren atlantica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Priscosiren atlantica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Priscosiren atlantica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPriscosiren through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2014