Stenotatus patagonicus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenotatusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 320 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
14 occurrences of Stenotatus patagonicus 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Stenotatus patagonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenotatus patagonicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stenotatus patagonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Propalaehoplophoridae7 sites
- Proeutatus6 sites
- Prozaedyus6 sites
- Acarechimys5 sites
- Acarechimys minutus5 sites
- Hapalops5 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus5 sites
- Proeutatus oenophorum5 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus5 sites
- Abderites meridionalis4 sites
- Adinotherium4 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata4 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica4 sites
- Cochlops muricatus4 sites
- Nesodon4 sites
- Peltephilus4 sites
- Protypotherium4 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis4 sites
- Acarechimys constans3 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus3 sites
- Interatherium3 sites
- Interatherium extensus3 sites
- Megatherioidea3 sites
- Microbiotherium tehuelchum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Stenotatus patagonicus, 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
6 references- Paleobiology of Santacrucian glyptodonts and armadillos (Xenarthra, Cingulata)6
- Cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) of the Santa Cruz Formation (Early-Middle Miocene) From the Río Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia3
- New middle Miocene (Langhian - Serravallian) vertebrate localities in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: A contribution to high latitude south american land mammal ages sequence2
- A review of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation1
- A new mammal fauna at the top of the Gran Barranca sequence and its biochronological significance1
- Two new fossil vertebrate localities in the Santa Cruz Formation (late early – early middle Miocene, Argentina), ~ 51° South latitude1
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 Stenotatus patagonicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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Everything alive alongside itStenotatus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1887)