Protemnodon anak

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtemnodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
- Life habit
- saltatorialPBDB, for Macropodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
15 occurrences of Protemnodon anak on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
15 occurrences- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene87%
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
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The named rock units Protemnodon anak has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protemnodon anak and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Protemnodon anak and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus9 sites
- Thylacoleo carnifex7 sites
- Macropus6 sites
- Protemnodon brehus6 sites
- Sarcophilus laniarius5 sites
- Sthenurus5 sites
- Thylacinus cynocephalus5 sites
- Palorchestes azael4 sites
- Aepyprymnus rufescens3 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus3 sites
- Diprotodon3 sites
- Diprotodon optatum3 sites
- Isoodon obesulus3 sites
- Procoptodon rapha3 sites
- Simosthenurus occidentalis3 sites
- Sthenurus andersoni3 sites
- Thylogale3 sites
- Vombatus ursinus3 sites
- Zygomaturus trilobus3 sites
- Banksia2 sites
- Bettongia2 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Bettongia penicillata2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Protemnodon anak, 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
14 references- Lancefield swamp and the extinction of the Australian megafauna2
- Man and megafauna in Tasmania: closing the gap1
- Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction1
- Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia1
- Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos1
- A review of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodilian genus Pallimnarchus1
- Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy and Mammalian Fauna of the Late Pliocene (Early Matuyama) Section at Batesford (Victoria), Australia1
- Marsupial fossils from Wellington Caves, New South Wales; the historic and scientific significance of the collections in the Australian Museum, Sydney1
- The Spring Creek locality, southwestern Victoria, a late surviving megafaunal assemblage1
- A Pleistocene spiny anteaster from Tasmania (Monotremata; Tachyglossidae, Zaglossus)1
- The fossil vertebrate fauna from Pleistocene deposits at Cement Mills, Gore, southern Queensland1
- Late Pleistocene mammals from the "Keilor cranium site," southern Victoria, Australia1
Each of the 15 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. 2 further references are 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 Protemnodon anak
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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What may have been alongside itProtemnodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1874