Satherium piscinarium

Satherium piscinarium is an extinct species of giant otter of North America that lived during the Pliocene through Pleistocene from ~3.7–1.6 Ma. (AEO). existing for approximately 2.1 million years.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SatheriumPBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 210 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesPliocene — about 28 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 17 of 45 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.58 Mya1.4 Mya5.8 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Satherium piscinarium on record. 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

45 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

4 formations

Glenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°W

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The named rock units Satherium piscinarium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Satherium piscinarium, 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

9 references

Each of the 45 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 content0

No picture of Satherium piscinarium 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 Satherium piscinarium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Satherium piscinarium 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1873)