Chapalmalania

Chapalmalania is an extinct genus of procyonid from the Late Miocene or Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia.

Chapalmalania

Olmagon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcyoniniPBDB
Diet
frugivore, carnivorePBDB, for Procyonidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Procyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.3–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–971 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences971 ka–797 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences797 ka–622 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3 Mya1.8 Mya5.5 Mya274 ka

3 occurrences of Chapalmalania on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

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

Andalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.19°W

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

Chapalmalania and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Chapalmalania and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chapalmalania, 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

3 references

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

Picture of Chapalmalania

Credit
Olmagon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chapalmalania 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProcyonini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1908