Notiomastodon

Notiomastodon is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean, endemic to South America from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene. Individuals of Notiomastodon reached a size similar to that of the modern Asian elephant, with a body mass of 3-4 tonnes. Like other brevirostrine gomphotheres such as Cuvieronius and Stegomastodon, Notiomastodon had a shortened lower jaw and lacked lower tusks, unlike more primitive gomphotheres like Gomphotherium.

Notiomastodon

Gergas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CuvieroniinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Gomphotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Gomphotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 190 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 190 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 190 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 179 of 190 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 24 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 28 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 126 occurrences8 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

190 occurrences of Notiomastodon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

190 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

22 formations

Solimões — 9.86°S, 71.41°WSolimões — 9.85°S, 71.36°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 72.82°WSolimões — 8.88°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 8.98°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 9.41°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 7.85°S, 72.67°WSolimões — 9.17°S, 69.84°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 34.64°S, 59.30°WLujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WDolores — 34.42°S, 56.26°WDolores — 32.38°S, 54.21°WDolores — 34.44°S, 57.20°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.08°S, 60.53°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTucuman — 26.50°S, 64.74°WTucuman — 26.81°S, 65.22°WMiramar — 37.87°S, 57.51°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WTablazo — 1.24°S, 80.82°WInaja — 9.07°S, 38.31°WLaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WYupoi — 28.60°S, 59.03°WSuelo — 28.60°S, 59.03°WEl Palmar — 31.93°S, 58.31°WIpururo — 12.57°S, 70.11°WRotinet — 10.53°N, 75.07°WLa Popa — 10.27°N, 75.42°WSoatá — 6.32°N, 72.67°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WLibertad — 34.53°S, 56.18°WLuján — 35.74°S, 58.50°WUrundel — 22.58°S, 63.86°W

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The named rock units Notiomastodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 148 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notiomastodon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Notiomastodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 147 sites for Notiomastodon, 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

72 references

Each of the 190 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. 60 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 content3

Picture of Notiomastodon

Credit
Gergas
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Notiomastodon platensis · FCS-P.303

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cabrera 1929