Diplasiotherium

Diplasiotherium is an extinct genus of litoptern belonging to the family Proterotheriidae, that lived between the late Miocene and the early Pliocene. The fossils of this animal have been found in Argentina, in the Monte Hermoso Formation.

Diplasiotherium

Schmidt, G. I.; Montalvo, C. I.; Cerdeño, E.; Sostillo, R.; Tomassini, R. L.; Bonini, R. A. · CC BY 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
ProterotheriidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 333 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 3.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocene8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.333 Mya – 5 Mya8.5 Mya3.3 Mya

7 occurrences of Diplasiotherium on record. 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

7 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

Cerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°W

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The named rock units Diplasiotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diplasiotherium, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Diplasiotherium

Credit
Schmidt, G. I.; Montalvo, C. I.; Cerdeño, E.; Sostillo, R.; Tomassini, R. L.; Bonini, R. A.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplasiotherium was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProterotheriidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rovereto 1914