Psilopterus lemoinei

Psilopterus lemoinei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsilopterusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae

Time the record covers

At most 9.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.5 Mya13.3 Mya

14 occurrences of Psilopterus lemoinei 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

14 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 — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.58°S, 69.23°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.10°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WMonte Leon — 50.23°S, 68.92°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°W

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The named rock units Psilopterus lemoinei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Psilopterus lemoinei and its relatives

Miocene

Where Psilopterus lemoinei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Psilopterus lemoinei, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Psilopterus lemoinei

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psilopterus lemoinei 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 itPsilopterus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moreno and Mercerat 1891)