Procariama simplex

Procariama is an extinct monotypic genus of phorusrhacid, which lived from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene of Argentina. Fossils of the animal have been found in six places, in the Cerro Azul and Andalhuala Formations. More specifically in the Andagalá department and in the north of the Belén department of the Catamarca province, with a single location in the La Pampa province. The type and only species, Procariama simplex, is the largest member of the subfamily Psilopterinae.

Procariama simplex

Smokeybjb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ProcariamaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 3.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocene8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5 Mya3.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Procariama simplex 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

4 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

Epecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WAndalhuala — 26.82°S, 66.06°WCorral Quemado — 26.97°S, 66.84°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°W

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The named rock units Procariama simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Procariama simplex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Procariama simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Procariama simplex, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Procariama simplex

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

No 3D scan of Procariama simplex 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

Licence
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 itProcariama through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rovereto 1914