Lanthanotherium

Lanthanotherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErinaceidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.5–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya8.725 Mya27.8 Mya4.6 Mya

41 occurrences of Lanthanotherium 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

41 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

15 formations

Barstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ETorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WBopesta — 35.19°N, 118.25°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WCajon Valley Beds — 34.80°N, 117.00°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EAral — 47.37°N, 60.87°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Lanthanotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lanthanotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lanthanotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

839 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Lanthanotherium, 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

23 references

Each of the 41 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Lanthanotherium

Source
GBIF
Credit
U.C.PARTY
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itErinaceidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1888