Arsinotherium
No picture of Arsinotherium 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 Arsinotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArsinoitheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Arsinotherium 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Arsinotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arsinotherium and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Arsinotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Anomaluridae2 sites
- Arsinoitherium2 sites
- Asteroidea2 sites
- Discorbidae2 sites
- Himantura2 sites
- Metaphiomys2 sites
- Nummulites2 sites
- Phiomys andrewsi2 sites
- Rhynchobatus pristinus2 sites
- Sparidae2 sites
- Taeniura2 sites
- Talahphiomys lavocati2 sites
- Thyrohyrax meyeri2 sites
- Aetobatus arcuatus1 site
- Albulidae1 site
- Alestinae indet.1 site
- Anchomomyini1 site
- Anura1 site
- Apidium1 site
- Atergatis1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Barytherioidea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Calappa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Arsinotherium, 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- Large ungulates from the basal Oligocene of Oman: 1 – Embrithopoda2
- Large Mammals from the Rupelian of Oman – Recent Finds1
Each of the 3 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
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Arsinotherium zitelli · NHMUK:PAL:PV M 8539
No picture of Arsinotherium 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 Arsinotherium, 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 itArsinoitheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.