Metamynodon planifrons

Metamynodon planifrons

Osborn. · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
MetamynodonPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Metamynodon
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Metamynodon
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37.5 Mya31.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Metamynodon planifrons on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

4 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

Byram — 32.30°N, 90.60°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.60°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°W

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

Metamynodon planifrons and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Metamynodon planifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metamynodon planifrons, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 4 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 content2

Picture of Metamynodon planifrons

Credit
Osborn.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
hippohipo
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itMetamynodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott and Osborn 1887