Prohegetotherium

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene of the Agua de la Piedra, Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.

Prohegetotherium

Reguero, M. A. ; Tineo, D. E. ; Bona, P.; Pérez, L. M.; Vergani, G. D.; Ruiz, G.G.; Poiré, D.G. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HegetotheriinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 17.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesOligocene — about 16 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 23 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya17.5 Mya34.4 Mya15.5 Mya

23 occurrences of Prohegetotherium 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

23 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

8 formations

Sarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 43.86°S, 68.64°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WFray Bentos — 30.76°S, 57.98°WFray Bentos — 29.68°S, 58.73°WFray Bentos — 29.09°S, 58.66°WSala Beds — 17.00°S, 67.00°WMariño — 32.88°S, 68.94°WFray Bentos — 34.38°S, 56.18°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WPetaca — 19.02°S, 63.56°W

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The named rock units Prohegetotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prohegetotherium and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Prohegetotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Prohegetotherium, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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 Prohegetotherium

Credit
Reguero, M. A. ; Tineo, D. E. ; Bona, P.; Pérez, L. M.; Vergani, G. D.; Ruiz, G.G.; Poiré, D.G.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prohegetotherium 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHegetotheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1897