Microbiotherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrobiotheriidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Microbiotheriidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36 Mya to 15.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 38 occurrencesMiocene37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 18 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29 Mya16.3 Mya36.5 Mya15 Mya

38 occurrences of Microbiotherium 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

38 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

5 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WPinturas — 46.99°S, 70.59°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.67°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WMonte Leon — 50.34°S, 68.96°W

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The named rock units Microbiotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microbiotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Microbiotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Microbiotherium, 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

11 references

Each of the 38 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

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No picture of Microbiotherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microbiotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microbiotherium 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 itMicrobiotheriidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887