Prototherium intermedium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrototheriumPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dugongidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sirenia
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Prototherium intermedium 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Prototherium intermedium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prototherium intermedium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Prototherium intermedium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Brachiolites1 site
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Guettardiscyphia thiolati1 site
- Hexactinella1 site
- Reguantella1 site
- Sirenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Prototherium intermedium, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Pilleri et al., 19892
- Prototherium intermedium n. sp. (Sirenia) dell'Eocene Superiore di Possagano e proposta di revisione sistematica del taxon Eotheroides Palmer 18991
Each of the 3 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
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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 itPrototherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bizzotto 1983