Pyrotheria

Pyrotheria is an order of extinct meridiungulate mammals. These elephant-like ungulates include the genera Baguatherium, Carolozittelia, Colombitherium, Griphodon, Propyrotherium, Proticia, and Pyrotherium.

Pyrotheria

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 29 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 21 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 47 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya29 Mya56.7 Mya20.3 Mya

47 occurrences of Pyrotheria on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

47 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

Pozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 47.03°S, 66.48°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 68.83°WSarmiento — 45.08°S, 68.33°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WLas Chacras — 41.37°S, 69.65°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WEl Milagro — 5.68°S, 78.52°WGeste — 26.06°S, 67.41°WTrujillo — 10.36°N, 69.81°WLa Balsa — 39.17°S, 69.83°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°W

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The named rock units Pyrotheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyrotheria and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pyrotheria and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

396 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Pyrotheria, 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

25 references

Each of the 47 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. 13 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 Pyrotheria

Credit
Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pyrotheria 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.

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 itSudamericungulata through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1895)