Stilotherium dissimile

Stilotherium dissimile

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StilotheriumPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Caenolestidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 17.5 Mya to 13.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesMiocene18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 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 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya15.5 Mya18 Mya13.3 Mya

10 occurrences of Stilotherium dissimile 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

10 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

2 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°W

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

Stilotherium dissimile and its relatives

Miocene

Where Stilotherium dissimile and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stilotherium dissimile, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stilotherium dissimile

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stilotherium dissimile was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itStilotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887