Procoptodon rapha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProcoptodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Procoptodon rapha on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
26 occurrences- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene92%
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 Procoptodon rapha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Procoptodon rapha and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Procoptodon rapha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Sthenurus andersoni8 sites
- Macropus goliah7 sites
- Procoptodon pusio7 sites
- Diprotodon optatum5 sites
- Thylacoleo carnifex5 sites
- Aepyprymnus rufescens4 sites
- Diprotodon4 sites
- Macropus atlas4 sites
- Procoptodon oreas4 sites
- Simosthenurus pales4 sites
- Macropus3 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus3 sites
- Metasthenurus newtonae3 sites
- Propleopus oscillans3 sites
- Protemnodon3 sites
- Protemnodon anak3 sites
- Sarcophilus laniarius3 sites
- Simosthenurus maddocki3 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula3 sites
- Varanus3 sites
- Zaglossus3 sites
- Bettongia2 sites
- Chelidae2 sites
- Crocodyloidea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Procoptodon rapha, 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
4 references- Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos22
- Marsupial fossils from Wellington Caves, New South Wales; the historic and scientific significance of the collections in the Australian Museum, Sydney2
- A Diprotodon ulna chewed by the marsupial lion,Thylacoleo carnifex1
- The fossil vertebrate fauna from Pleistocene deposits at Cement Mills, Gore, southern Queensland1
Each of the 26 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 Procoptodon rapha
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Procoptodon rapha was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itProcoptodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1874