Stegodon zhaotongensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StegodonPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Stegodon zhaotongensis on record. 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- Miocene65%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistocene33%
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 Stegodon zhaotongensis 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.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Felis2 sites
- Alilepus1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Cernictis lufengensis1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Elephas1 site
- Equus yunnanensis1 site
- Euryale yunnanensis1 site
- Lufengpithecus lufengensis1 site
- Margarya sp.1 site
- Miorhizomys sp.1 site
- Muntiacus1 site
- Muntiacus nanus1 site
- Muntiacus zhaotongensis1 site
- Neocricetodon1 site
- Pliopetaurista1 site
- Rhinoceros1 site
- Semisulcospira elegans1 site
- Siamogale melilutra1 site
- Sinocastor1 site
- Sinomastodon1 site
- Stegodon elephantoides1 site
- Sus1 site
- Tapirus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stegodon zhaotongensis, 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- A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in northeastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines1
- New materials of the Late Miocene Muntiacus from Zhaotong hominoid site in southern China1
- Identification of the Yuanmou fossil-man strata; study of the Yuanmou Formation1
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
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No picture of Stegodon zhaotongensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Stegodon zhaotongensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stegodon zhaotongensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chow and Zhai 1962