Protopithecus brasiliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protopithecus brasiliensis 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene96%
- Holocene5%
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.
Protopithecus brasiliensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Protopithecus brasiliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Arctotherium (Pararctotherium) brasiliense1 site
- Caipora bambuiorum1 site
- Cerdocyon thous1 site
- Cervus gouazoubira1 site
- Chrotopterus auritus1 site
- Coendou prehensilis1 site
- Conepatus semistriatus1 site
- Desmodus draculae1 site
- Desmodus rotundus1 site
- Eptesicus1 site
- Euphractus sexcinctus1 site
- Lama guanicoe1 site
- Leopardus1 site
- Leopardus pardalis1 site
- Lonchophylla1 site
- Mormoops megaphylla1 site
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla1 site
- Nothrotherium maquinense1 site
- Panthera onca1 site
- Pecari tajacu1 site
- Procyon cancrivorus1 site
- Protocyon troglodytes1 site
- Pterynotus1 site
- Puma concolor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protopithecus brasiliensis, 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
2 references- A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil1
- A complete skeleton of the giant South American primate Protopithecus1
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 Protopithecus brasiliensis 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 Protopithecus brasiliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protopithecus brasiliensis 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 itProtopithecus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund 1838