Simosthenurus antiquus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SimosthenurusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Simosthenurus antiquus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene75%
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 Simosthenurus antiquus 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.
Simosthenurus antiquus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Simosthenurus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Sthenurus andersoni3 sites
- Diprotodon2 sites
- Macropus goliah2 sites
- Simosthenurus pales2 sites
- Archerium chinchillaensis1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Crocodyloidea1 site
- Dasyurus dunmalli1 site
- Dromaius novaehollandiae1 site
- Euowenia grata1 site
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus1 site
- Macropus woodsi1 site
- Metasthenurus newtonae1 site
- Paludirex1 site
- Paludirex vincenti1 site
- Perameles wilkinsonorum1 site
- Procoptodon oreas1 site
- Procoptodon pusio1 site
- Procoptodon rapha1 site
- Protemnodon anak1 site
- Pseudomys vandycki1 site
- Rheodytes devisi1 site
- Silvaroo bila1 site
- Sthenurus notabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Simosthenurus antiquus, 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 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Simosthenurus antiquus 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 Simosthenurus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Simosthenurus antiquus 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.
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What may have been alongside itSimosthenurus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bartholomai 1963