Prosansanosmilus peregrinus

Prosansanosmilus is an extinct genus of barbourofelin that lived in Europe during the Early Miocene epoch from 18 to 15.97 mya, existing for approximately 2.03 million years. Including supplementary materials It contains Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, which died out in the Miocene epoch.

Prosansanosmilus peregrinus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ProsansanosmilusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiocene20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.9 Mya6.7 Mya

7 occurrences of Prosansanosmilus peregrinus 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

7 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

1 formation

Brackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°E

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The named rock units Prosansanosmilus peregrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prosansanosmilus peregrinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prosansanosmilus peregrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, 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 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Prosansanosmilus peregrinus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prosansanosmilus peregrinus 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

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 itProsansanosmilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heizmann et al. 1980