Pseudotypotherium

Pseudotypotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulates, belonging to the suborder Typotheria. It lived from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.

Pseudotypotherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PampainiPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 15 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

32 occurrences of Pseudotypotherium 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

32 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

10 formations

Cerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 36.72°S, 64.30°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 36.84°S, 65.28°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.77°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WRosa Pata — 17.40°S, 68.45°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WBarranca de los Lobos — 38.12°S, 57.70°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°WPampean — 37.27°S, 64.57°WVorohué — 38.22°S, 57.73°W

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The named rock units Pseudotypotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudotypotherium and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pseudotypotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pseudotypotherium, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Pseudotypotherium

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pseudotypotherium 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 itPampaini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1904