Scarrittia canquelensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScarrittiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Scarrittia canquelensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Scarrittia canquelensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scarrittia canquelensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Scarrittia canquelensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Anura1 site
- Archaeutatus malaspinensis1 site
- Argyrohyrax proavus1 site
- Calyptocephalella canqueli1 site
- Changquin woodi1 site
- Eupsophus1 site
- Glyptodontidae indet.1 site
- Macraucheniidae1 site
- Meteutatus1 site
- Meteutatus lagenaformis1 site
- Neoprocoela edentatus1 site
- Peltephilus1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Platypittamys brachyodon1 site
- Proborhyaena1 site
- Progaleopithecus tournoueri1 site
- Rhynchippus pumilus1 site
- Rodentia1 site
- Squamata1 site
- Stenotatus1 site
- Toxodontia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scarrittia canquelensis, 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- The Leontiniidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the Sarmiento Formation at Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina1
- A new notoungulate from the early Tertiary of Patagonia1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Scarrittia canquelensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Scarrittia canquelensis 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 itScarrittia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1934