Prostegotherium astrifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProstegotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Prostegotherium astrifer on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
- Andesitas Huancache Formation1
- Sarmiento Formation1
- Lumbrera Formation · Salta Group1
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The named rock units Prostegotherium astrifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prostegotherium astrifer and its relatives
EoceneWhere Prostegotherium astrifer and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Archaeopithecus rogeri3 sites
- Hathlyacininae3 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta3 sites
- Notostylops3 sites
- Pliodolops primulus3 sites
- Pliodolops rothi3 sites
- Amphidolops2 sites
- Amphidolops intermedius2 sites
- Asmithwoodwardia subtrigona2 sites
- Caroloameghiniinae2 sites
- Didelphimorphia2 sites
- Eomicrobiotherium diluculum2 sites
- Homalostylops parvus2 sites
- Hypodolops sapoensis2 sites
- Isotemnus2 sites
- Microbiotheria2 sites
- Microbiotheriidae2 sites
- Palangania brandmayri2 sites
- Pauladelphys2 sites
- Polydolopidae2 sites
- Polydolops unicus2 sites
- Protodidelphis2 sites
- Riostegotherium2 sites
- Stegosimpsonia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Prostegotherium astrifer, 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- New Early Eocene mammalian fauna from western Patagonia, Argentina2
- Eocene (Ypresian-Lutetian) mammals from Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Gaiman, Chubut Province, Argentina)1
- New Cingulata (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Upper Lumbrera Formation (Bartonian, Middle Eocene), Salta Province, Argentina1
- Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]1
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
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No picture of Prostegotherium astrifer 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 Prostegotherium astrifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prostegotherium astrifer 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 itProstegotherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1902