Palaeothentidae

Palaeothentidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeothentoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 137 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 137 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 115 of 137 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 41 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 48 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya13.8 Mya38.2 Mya10.5 Mya

137 occurrences of Palaeothentidae 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

137 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

16 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 71.78°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 49.56°S, 70.06°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WPinturas — 48.90°S, 70.17°WPinturas — 48.97°S, 71.40°WPinturas — 46.96°S, 70.61°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.67°WPinturas — 48.08°S, 70.08°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WSalla Beds — 17.18°S, 67.62°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WSolimões — 9.19°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 9.41°S, 72.72°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WYahuarango — 9.49°S, 72.76°WChambira — 7.32°S, 74.93°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Palaeothentidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeothentidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palaeothentidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Palaeothentidae, 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

30 references

Each of the 137 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. 18 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 content1

Picture of Palaeothentidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Sinclair 1906