Arretotherium

No picture of Arretotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Arretotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthracotheriidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Oligocene — about 5 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 19 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence24.7 Mya18.5 Mya30 Mya15.8 Mya

19 occurrences of Arretotherium 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

19 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

12 formations

Sharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WFleming — 30.74°N, 95.25°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WWildcat Hills Beds — 41.70°N, 103.67°WHarrison — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBlacktail Deer Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WOakville — 30.30°N, 95.70°WLas Cascadas — 9.06°N, 79.67°WMonroe Creek — 43.08°N, 102.92°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WBelgrade — 34.89°N, 77.23°W

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The named rock units Arretotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arretotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Arretotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Arretotherium, 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

14 references

Each of the 19 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Arretotherium sp. · UF:VP:552612

No picture of Arretotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Arretotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAnthracotheriidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douglass 1902