Metaxytherium medium

Metaxytherium medium

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesPliocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.7–8.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.9–8.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya3.1 Mya

66 occurrences of Metaxytherium medium 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

66 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

12 formations

Ampelouzos — 35.14°N, 24.99°EAmpelouzos — 35.06°N, 24.94°EAchladia — 35.20°N, 26.16°EAchladia — 35.20°N, 26.09°ELeitha — 47.81°N, 16.63°ELeitha — 47.83°N, 16.45°ELeitha — 47.97°N, 16.61°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°ERoka — 35.61°N, 23.84°ERoka — 35.50°N, 23.67°EWeissenegg — 46.74°N, 15.56°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EGroote Heide — 52.10°N, 6.65°EArenaria di Ponsano — 43.36°N, 10.94°EAkrotiri — 35.41°N, 24.11°ELeitha — 48.74°N, 16.71°EPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°E

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The named rock units Metaxytherium medium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaxytherium medium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metaxytherium medium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

290 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Metaxytherium medium, 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

35 references

Each of the 66 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. 23 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 Metaxytherium medium

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Metaxytherium medium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMetaxytherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Desmarest 1822)