Platygonus marplatensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatygonusPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Platygonus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
9 occurrences of Platygonus marplatensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene11%
- Pliocene74%
- Pleistocene14%
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 Platygonus marplatensis 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.
Platygonus marplatensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Platygonus marplatensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Microcavia3 sites
- Argyrohyus2 sites
- Argyrolagus2 sites
- Brachytherium2 sites
- Cardiomys2 sites
- Chorobates2 sites
- Cyonasua2 sites
- Didelphis2 sites
- Diheterocnus2 sites
- Doellotatus2 sites
- Dolicavia2 sites
- Eucoelophorus2 sites
- Hyperdidelphys2 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)2 sites
- Lutreolina tracheia2 sites
- Macrochorobates2 sites
- Macroeuphractus2 sites
- Orthomyctera2 sites
- Phugatherium2 sites
- Plohophoroides2 sites
- Proscelidodon2 sites
- Telicomys2 sites
- Thylacosmilidae2 sites
- Trachycalyptus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Platygonus marplatensis, 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- Records and Stratigraphical Ranges of South American Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla)3
- Selenogonus narinoensis Stirton, 1947 (Tayassuidae, Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia): taxonomic status and paleobiogeographic implications2
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections2
- Advances in the understanding of Neogene mammalian fauna in the Pampean region (central Argentina) through revising “biozone” hypotheses based on new dates and biochronological analyses1
- A rodent and a peccary from the Cenozoic of Colombia1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Platygonus marplatensis 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 Platygonus marplatensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platygonus marplatensis 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 itPlatygonus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reig 1952