Metarhinus pater
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetarhinusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Metarhinus pater on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group12
- Santiago Formation1
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The named rock units Metarhinus pater has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metarhinus pater and its relatives
EoceneWhere Metarhinus pater and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Sciuravus powayensis6 sites
- Leptoreodon major5 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni4 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus4 sites
- Microparamys minutus4 sites
- Crocodylidae3 sites
- Hesperaletes walshi3 sites
- Leptoreodon marshi3 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki3 sites
- Protoreodon parvus3 sites
- Tinosaurus stenodon3 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus3 sites
- Washakius woodringi3 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Centetodon aztecus2 sites
- Glyptosaurinae2 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
- Iguanidae2 sites
- Palaeoxantusia allisoni2 sites
- Paracontogenys estesi2 sites
- Parasauromalus olseni2 sites
- Pareumys grangeri2 sites
- Saniwa ensidens2 sites
- Stockia powayensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Metarhinus pater, 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
6 references- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California7
- Eocene Perissodactyla From the La Jolla and Poway Groups, San Diego County, California2
- Phylogenetic status of Metarhinus pater (Brontotheriidae: Perissodactyla) from Southern California and species variation in Metarhinus from the middle Eocene of North America1
- Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California1
- Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the middle Eocene Friars Formation and Poway Group, southwestern San Diego County, California1
- An Eocene Titanothere from San Diego County, California, with Remarks on the Age of the Poway Conglomerate1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Metarhinus pater was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metarhinus pater, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMetarhinus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
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