Notiomastodon platensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NotiomastodonPBDB
- 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.
163 occurrences of Notiomastodon platensis 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
163 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene94%
- Holocene3%
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
17 formations
- Solimões Formation12
- Lujan Formation3
- Dolores Formation3
- Salto Ander Egg Formation2
- Miramar Formation2
- Solimoes Formation1
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The named rock units Notiomastodon platensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notiomastodon platensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Notiomastodon platensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
391 taxa- Gomphotheriidae28 sites
- Eremotherium laurillardi19 sites
- Toxodon13 sites
- Smilodon populator11 sites
- Equus caballus10 sites
- Toxodon platensis9 sites
- Toxodontidae9 sites
- Glyptodon8 sites
- Glyptotherium8 sites
- Hippidion8 sites
- Lestodon armatus8 sites
- Macrauchenia patagonica8 sites
- Crocodyliformes7 sites
- Glyptodon clavipes7 sites
- Glyptodon reticulatus7 sites
- Hemiauchenia paradoxa7 sites
- Megatherium americanum7 sites
- Neosclerocalyptus7 sites
- Panochthus7 sites
- Rodentia7 sites
- Xenarthra7 sites
- Catonyx cuvieri6 sites
- Cervidae6 sites
- Equus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Notiomastodon platensis, 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
62 references- Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae)58
- Georeferencing fossiliferous localities from Solimões and Acre Basins (Brazil) -what we know so far about Solimões Formation and future perspectives15
- Les Mammiferes Pleistocenes de la Republique de L´Equateur10
- El registro de Stegomastodon (Mammalia, Gomphotheriidae) en el Pleistoceno superior de Brasil8
- Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview4
- Registros fósiles del género Notiomastodon cf. platensis (Mammalia: Proboscidea) en el sur occidente colombiano, depositados en el Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad del Cauca, Popayán3
- Ain’t no mountain high enough? New records of Notiomastodon platensis (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from Colombia and the Quaternary dry corridor of the Cauca valley3
- A systematic reassessment and paleogeographic review of fossil Xenarthra from Peru3
- Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea)2
- The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile2
- New material of Tapirus (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil2
- Mamíferos extintos del Cuaternario de la Provincia del Chaco (Argentina) y su relación con aquéllos del este de la región pampeana y de Chile2
Each of the 163 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. 50 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 platensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano (INCUAPA)
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Notiomastodon platensis · FCS-P.303
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itNotiomastodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1888)