Tapirus mesopotamicus

Tapirus mesopotamicus is an extinct species of tapir that lived in South America during the Pleistocene. It is considered a possible ancestor of all extant South American tapirs.

No picture of Tapirus mesopotamicus 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 Tapirus mesopotamicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TapirusPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Tapirus
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Tapirus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 389 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences900 ka0 Mya

2 occurrences of Tapirus mesopotamicus 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

2 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

2 formations

Arroyo Feliciano — 32.03°S, 60.62°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°W

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The named rock units Tapirus mesopotamicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tapirus mesopotamicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tapirus mesopotamicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tapirus mesopotamicus, 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

Each of the 2 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 Tapirus mesopotamicus 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 Tapirus mesopotamicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tapirus mesopotamicus 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 itTapirus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ferrero and Noriega 2007