Proeremotherium

Proeremotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriine ground sloths in the family Megatheriidae. It lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of what is now Venezuela. So far, two largely complete skulls have been recovered in the Falcón Basin in Venezuela. The finds identify the animals as medium-sized representatives of the Megatheriidae. In the cranial anatomy, Proeremotherium resembles the later and giant Eremotherium. It is therefore assumed that the two ground sloths are directly related to each other.

Proeremotherium

Alfredo A. Carlini, Diego Brandoni, Rodolfo Sánchez and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
MegatheriinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Megatheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Megatheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.0–772 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6 Mya1.8 Mya7.7 Mya274 ka

3 occurrences of Proeremotherium 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

3 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

2 formations

San Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WCodore — 11.26°N, 70.29°W

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

Proeremotherium and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Proeremotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proeremotherium, 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

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. 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 Proeremotherium

Credit
Alfredo A. Carlini, Diego Brandoni, Rodolfo Sánchez and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proeremotherium 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 itMegatheriinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carlini et al. 2006