Pitheculites
No picture of Pitheculites 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 Pitheculites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AbderitidaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivorePBDB, for Abderitidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Abderitidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pitheculites 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pitheculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pitheculites and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pitheculites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Abderites1 site
- Astegotheriini1 site
- Banderomys leanzai1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Caviidae1 site
- Caviocricetus lucasi1 site
- Cladosictis1 site
- Cramauchenia normalis1 site
- Eoviscaccia australis1 site
- Erethizontoidea1 site
- Hathlyacininae1 site
- Megadolodus1 site
- Microscleromys1 site
- Microscleromys cribriphilus1 site
- Microscleromys paradoxalis1 site
- Miocochilius1 site
- Neosaimiri fieldsi1 site
- Nuyuyomys chinqaska1 site
- Octodontoidea1 site
- Palaeothentes1 site
- Peltephilidae1 site
- Perimys1 site
- Proadinotherium muensteri1 site
- Proeutatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pitheculites, 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
3 references- Late middle Miocene Metatheria (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata) from Juan Guerra, San Martín Department, Peruvian Amazonia1
- Estratigrafía y vertebrados (Aves y Mammalia) de la Formación Cerro Bandera, Mioceno Temprano de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina1
- Fossil Marsupialia from the type Friasian Land Mammal Age (Miocene), Alto Rio Cisnes, Aisen, Chile1
Each of the 3 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 Pitheculites 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 Pitheculites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitheculites 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAbderitidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901