Theosodon

Theosodon is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal from the Early to Middle Miocene of South America.

Theosodon

Bloopityboop · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 34 of 34 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17.5 Mya13.8 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

34 occurrences of Theosodon 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

34 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

12 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.60°S, 69.56°WSanta Cruz — 51.58°S, 69.23°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 47.52°S, 71.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WLa Victoria — 3.20°N, 75.20°WLa Victoria — 3.25°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.37°N, 75.15°WAisol — 34.97°S, 68.54°WAisol — 34.91°S, 68.50°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WIpururo — 10.63°S, 73.92°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.61°WYecua — 17.75°S, 63.23°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WCollón Cura — 41.00°S, 70.58°WRío Frías — 44.58°S, 71.23°WVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.14°WCura-Mallin — 38.68°S, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Theosodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Theosodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Theosodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Theosodon, 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

20 references

Each of the 34 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. 8 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 Theosodon

Credit
Bloopityboop
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Theosodon 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 itCramaucheniinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887