Protypotherium australe

Protypotherium australe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtypotheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 17.5 Mya to 10 Mya.

Miocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesMiocene18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya11 Mya18 Mya9.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Protypotherium australe 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

21 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

3 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 51.34°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WRio Frias — 45.62°S, 70.50°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°W

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The named rock units Protypotherium australe 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.

Protypotherium australe and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protypotherium australe and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protypotherium australe, 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

10 references

Each of the 21 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

Media content2

Picture of Protypotherium australe

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Protypotherium australe · NHMUK:PAL:PV M 5701

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtypotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moreno 1882)