Protocaiman peligrensis
No picture of Protocaiman peligrensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Protocaiman peligrensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Protocaiman peligrensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocaimanPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protocaiman peligrensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Protocaiman peligrensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protocaiman peligrensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Protocaiman peligrensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Alfredocarlinia cratera1 site
- Allognathosuchus1 site
- Caimaninae1 site
- Calyptocephalella sabrosa1 site
- Caudiverbera1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Derorhynchus minutus1 site
- Didelphopsis primavera1 site
- Escribania chubutensis1 site
- Escribania talonicuspis1 site
- Eutheria1 site
- Gigantobatrachus casamiquelai1 site
- Hydromedusa casamayorensis1 site
- Kawasphenodon peligrensis1 site
- Metatheria1 site
- Monotrematum sudamericanum1 site
- Panperissodactyla1 site
- Peligrochelys walshae1 site
- Peligrotherium tropicalis1 site
- Pipidae1 site
- Placentalia1 site
- Raulvaccia peligrensis1 site
- Requisia vidmari1 site
- Salamancatherium lacerum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protocaiman peligrensis, 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
1 reference- A new Palaeocene crocodylian from southern Argentina sheds light on the early history of caimanines1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Protocaiman peligrensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Protocaiman peligrensis itself, so it was not used.
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 Protocaiman peligrensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocaiman peligrensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtocaiman through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bona et al. 2018