Metaxytherium krahuletzi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetaxytheriumPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dugongidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sirenia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
26 occurrences of Metaxytherium krahuletzi 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
26 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
6 formations
- Burgeschleinitz Formation16
- Modolo Formation2
- Retz Formation1
- Molasse calcaire et sablo-marneuse Formation1
- Florinas Formation1
- Mores Formation1
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The named rock units Metaxytherium krahuletzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Metaxytherium krahuletzi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Metaxytherium krahuletzi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Brachyodus2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Schizodelphis sulcatus2 sites
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acrodelphinidae1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Anadara fitcheli grandis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Arca (Arca) biangula1 site
- Aubignyna1 site
- Babylonia (Peridipsaccus)1 site
- Barbatia (Acar) barbata subhelbingi1 site
- Bucardium1 site
- Buccella1 site
- Calyptraea (Bicatillus) deformis irregularis1 site
- Cassigerinella1 site
- Cetotherium1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Cibicoides pseudoungerianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Metaxytherium krahuletzi, 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
9 references- The osteology and relationships of Metaxytherium krahuletzi Deperet, 1895 (Mammalia, Sirenia)15
- A new record of fossil sirenians from the Miocene of Sardinia (Italy)4
- New Miocene sirenians from Nosy Makamby, northwestern Madagascar1
- New record of Metaxytherium (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the lower Miocene of Manosque (Provence, France)1
- Sirenlagerstatten in den marinen flachwasser-ablagerungen der eggenberger bucht (Burgschleinitz-Formation, Eggenburgium, Untermiozan)1
- Pilleri, 19871
- Zur Altersfrage de Braunkohle von Langau bei Geras in Niederosterreich1
- Uber die Fauna von miocanen Wirbeltheieren aus der ersten Mediterranstufe von Eggenburg1
- Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet [Communications, sent to Professor Bronn]1
Each of the 26 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 Metaxytherium krahuletzi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Metaxytherium krahuletzi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMetaxytherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret 1895