Paleoparadoxia tabatai

Paleoparadoxia tabatai

Momotarou2012 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
PaleoparadoxiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Desmostylia
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Desmostylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Desmostylia
Environment
coastalPBDB, for Desmostylia

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

24 occurrences of Paleoparadoxia tabatai 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

24 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

15 formations

Santa Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.04°WSanta Margarita — 34.61°N, 119.44°WIwando — 36.02°N, 139.37°ETemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°WTemblor — 36.10°N, 120.40°WNagura — 35.99°N, 139.08°ETurusi — 38.97°N, 141.22°ENiwaya — 36.25°N, 138.98°EYanagawa — 37.85°N, 140.60°EAkeyo — 35.36°N, 137.18°EKurosedani — 36.58°N, 137.14°EMoniwa — 38.22°N, 140.79°EAkigawa — 35.73°N, 139.22°EYoshino — 35.06°N, 133.97°EAkikawa — 35.68°N, 139.77°EKimachi — 35.51°N, 132.97°ENishikurosawa — 39.98°N, 139.73°E

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The named rock units Paleoparadoxia tabatai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paleoparadoxia tabatai and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paleoparadoxia tabatai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Paleoparadoxia tabatai, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 Paleoparadoxia tabatai

Credit
Momotarou2012
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paleoparadoxia tabatai 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.

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What may have been alongside itPaleoparadoxia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tokunaga 1939)