Protosiren fraasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtosirenPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Sirenia
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sirenia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protosiren fraasi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Protosiren fraasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protosiren fraasi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protosiren fraasi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Anomotodon novus1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachycarcharias lerichei1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Carcharodon subserratus1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Crustacea indet.1 site
- Eosiren abeli1 site
- Eotheroides aegyptiacum1 site
- Galeocerdo latidens1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hypotodus verticalis1 site
- Isurolamia affinis1 site
- Isurus praecursor1 site
- Jaeckelotodus robustus1 site
- Jaeckelotodus trigonalis1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Odontaspis winkleri1 site
- Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi1 site
- Otodus auriculatus1 site
- Otodus obliquus1 site
- Otodus sokolovi1 site
- Pachygaleus lefevrei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protosiren fraasi, 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- The most northerly record of the sirenian Protosiren and the possible polyphyletic evolution of manatees and dugongs1
- Eocene sea cows (Sirenia, Mammalia) from Hungary1
- Die Stammesgeschichte der Meeressauetiere1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Protosiren fraasi 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 Protosiren fraasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protosiren fraasi 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 itProtosiren through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Abel 1904)