Microtitan
Microtitan is a genus of brontothere from the Irdin Manha formation.
No picture of Microtitan 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 Microtitan, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrontotheriiniPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 188 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
4 occurrences of Microtitan 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic25%
- Eocene75%
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
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The named rock units Microtitan 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.
Microtitan and its relatives
EoceneWhere Microtitan and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Breviodon2 sites
- Gobiohyus orientalis2 sites
- Harpagolestes orientalis2 sites
- Propterodon morrisi2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- ? Styliondon sp.1 site
- Acrotitan ulanshirehensis1 site
- Ademosyne bacca1 site
- Ademosyne elliptica1 site
- Adzhajloutshella plana1 site
- Adzhajloutshella talis1 site
- Agetopanorpa triassica1 site
- Ahagla mira1 site
- Anaidelia extrema1 site
- Anoblattogryllus fundatus1 site
- Anthracotherium1 site
- Archihagla zeuneri1 site
- Asiocula lima1 site
- Asioxyela paurura1 site
- Austroidelia asiatica1 site
- Austroidelia nervosa1 site
- Avocatinus elongatus1 site
- Baharellinus dimidiatus1 site
- Baharellus madygensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microtitan, 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
4 references- New and Little Known Mesotitanidae and Paratitanidae (Titanoptera) from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan1
- The middle Eocene Arshanto fauna (Mammalia) of Inner Mongolia1
- Mammalian Fauna from the Late Eocene of Ulan Shireh Area, Inner Mongolia1
- Late Eocene mammalian faunas of Honan and Shansi with notes on some vertebrate fossils collected therefrom1
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 content0
No picture of Microtitan 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 Microtitan, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microtitan 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Microtitan”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrontotheriini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Granger and Gregory 1943