Microtragulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgyrolagidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 774 ka.
11 occurrences of Microtragulus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
11 occurrences- Miocene8%
- Pliocene77%
- Pleistocene15%
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
8 formations
- Umala Formation3
- Uquía Formation2
- Vorohué Formation1
- Andalhuala Formation1
- Monte Hermoso Formation1
- San Andres Formation1
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The named rock units Microtragulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microtragulus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Microtragulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Microcavia4 sites
- Eumysops3 sites
- Megatherium3 sites
- Palaeocavia3 sites
- Promacrauchenia3 sites
- Chorobates2 sites
- Eleutherocercus antiquus2 sites
- Eosclerocalyptus lineatus2 sites
- Lama2 sites
- Neophanomys2 sites
- Neophanomys biplicatus2 sites
- Paedotherium bonaerense2 sites
- Paedotherium typicum2 sites
- Pampatherium2 sites
- Phyllotini2 sites
- Pithanotomys2 sites
- Pithanotomys columnaris2 sites
- Promacrauchenia antiqua2 sites
- Reithrodon auritus2 sites
- Rhinella2 sites
- Sigmodontinae2 sites
- Xotodon2 sites
- Abalosia castellanosi1 site
- Abrocoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Microtragulus, 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
10 references- Redescription of the argyrolagid Microtragulus bolivianus (Metatheria, Polydolopimorphia, Bonapartheriiformes) based on new remains from Northwestern Argentina2
- New well-preserved craniodental remains of Simomylodon uccasamamensis (Xenarthra: Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano: phylogenetic, chronostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographical implications1
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- A late Miocene Argyrolagidae (Mammalia, Metatheria, Bonapartheriiformes) from northwestern Argentina1
- First evidence of scavenging of a Glyptodont (Mammalia, Glyptodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina): taphonomic and paleoecological remarks1
- Exceptional Late Pliocene microvertebrate diversity in northwestern Argentina reveals a marked small mammal turnover1
- Late cenozoic mammals from the northwest of Argentina1
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections1
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review1
- Un Mustelido del Genero Galictis del Eocuartario de la Provincia de Buenos Aires1
Each of the 11 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 Microtragulus 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 Microtragulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microtragulus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArgyrolagidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1904