Granastrapotherium snorki

Granastrapotherium is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals, described from remains found in rocks of the Honda Group in the Tatacoa Desert, in the Colombian departments of Huila and Tolima, at the Miocene fossil site La Venta. The only species formally recognized is Granastrapotherium snorki. Remains found in Bolivia and Peru, seem to belong to Granastrapotherium or a very similar animal.

Granastrapotherium snorki

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GranastrapotheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
cursorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 28 of 28 occurrencesMiocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16.5 Mya10.5 Mya

28 occurrences of Granastrapotherium snorki 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

28 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

4 formations

Villavieja — 3.24°N, 75.18°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.32°N, 75.13°WVillavieja — 3.21°N, 75.26°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WLa Victoria — 3.32°N, 75.18°WLa Victoria — 3.27°N, 75.12°WLa Victoria — 3.39°N, 75.12°WIpururo — 10.40°S, 73.52°WIpururo — 10.45°S, 73.55°WZorritos — 3.75°S, 80.55°W

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The named rock units Granastrapotherium snorki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Granastrapotherium snorki and its relatives

Miocene

Where Granastrapotherium snorki and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Granastrapotherium snorki, 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

5 references

Each of the 28 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 Granastrapotherium snorki

Credit
Rextron
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Granastrapotherium snorki 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

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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 itGranastrapotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson and Madden 1997