Interatherium extensus

Interatherium extensum (Ameghino, 1889), a relative of Interatherium extensus — not Interatherium extensus itself

Not Interatherium extensus. This is Interatherium extensum (Ameghino, 1889), a relative — both are Interatheriidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InteratheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 1.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiocene18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18 Mya15.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Interatherium extensus 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

16 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

1 formation

Santa Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 51.60°S, 69.56°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.95°S, 69.20°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°W

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

Interatherium extensus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Interatherium extensus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Interatherium extensus, 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 16 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 Interatherium extensum (Ameghino, 1889)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fernández et al. 2023