Peratherium elegans
No picture of Peratherium elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peratherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeratheriumPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpetotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Peratherium elegans on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
7 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Peratherium elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Peratherium elegans and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Peratherium elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Platyspondylia5 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum4 sites
- Lophiomeryx chalaniati4 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi4 sites
- Amphisbaenidae3 sites
- Anguini3 sites
- Coluber cadurci3 sites
- Neurogymnurus cayluxi3 sites
- Ophisaurus3 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis3 sites
- Sciurodon cadurcensis3 sites
- Tetracus nanus3 sites
- Theridomys ludensis3 sites
- Amphiperatherium ambiguum2 sites
- Amphisbaenia2 sites
- Bachitherium2 sites
- Blainvillimys gregarius2 sites
- Bransateryx vireti2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
- Cricetidae2 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Geotrypus2 sites
- Geotrypus acutidentatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Peratherium elegans, 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
5 references- Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocene, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertebres. 4. Marsupiaux et insectivores.3
- A new early late Oligocene (MP 26) continental vertebrate fauna from Saint-Privat-des-Vieux (Alès Basin, Gard, Southern France)1
- Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia)1
- Mammals from the Cyrena Beds of Offenbach (Hesse) – Biostratigraphic correlation1
- Baraval, nouvelle faune de l’Oligocène inférieur de l’Oligocène inférieur (MP 22) des Phosphorites du Quercy. Apport à la signification chronologique des remplissages karstiques1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Peratherium elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peratherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peratherium elegans 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 itPeratherium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aymard 1846