Schismotherium fractum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchismotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Schismotherium fractum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Schismotherium fractum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schismotherium fractum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schismotherium fractum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Abderites meridionalis2 sites
- Acdestis oweni2 sites
- Adinotherium2 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata2 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica2 sites
- Microbiotherium tehuelchum2 sites
- Palaeothentes intermedius2 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei2 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus2 sites
- Perathereutes pungens2 sites
- Perimys2 sites
- Protypotherium praerutilum2 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis2 sites
- Tetramerorhinus cingulatum2 sites
- Acarechimys1 site
- Acarechimys constans1 site
- Acarechimys gracilis1 site
- Acarechimys minutissimus1 site
- Acarechimys minutus1 site
- Acaremyidae1 site
- Acaremys murinus1 site
- Adinotherium ovinum1 site
- Anisolophus floweri1 site
- Astrapotherium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schismotherium fractum, 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
2 references- On the type of Schismotherium fractum Ameghino, 1887 (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatherioidea) from the early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)2
- Early Miocene Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) From the Río Santa Cruz Valley (Southern Patagonia, Argentina), Ameghino, 1887 Revisited1
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 content0
No picture of Schismotherium fractum 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 Schismotherium fractum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schismotherium fractum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSchismotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887