Parastrapotherium

Parastrapotherium is an extinct genus of South American land mammal that existed from the Late Oligocene to the Early Miocene. The genus includes some of the largest and smallest known astrapotherians, but As of 2008 has no generally recognized description.

Parastrapotherium

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 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
AstrapotheriidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Astrapotheria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 42 Mya to 21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42 Mya21 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Parastrapotherium 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

13 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

4 formations

Sarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WCerro Bandera — 39.03°S, 69.68°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WCura-Mallin — 38.00°S, 71.40°W

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The named rock units Parastrapotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parastrapotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parastrapotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Parastrapotherium, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Parastrapotherium

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parastrapotherium was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1895