Thylacosmilus atrox

Thylacosmilus atrox

Ideonexus · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
ThylacosmilusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences8.1–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya8.5 Mya2.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Thylacosmilus atrox 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

11 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

6 formations

Cerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCorral Quemado — 27.22°S, 66.93°WCorral Quemado — 26.97°S, 66.84°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WBrochero — 31.78°S, 64.99°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°W

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The named rock units Thylacosmilus atrox 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

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thylacosmilus atrox, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content3

Picture of Thylacosmilus atrox

Credit
Ideonexus
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Thylacosmilus atrox · MLP:35-X-4-1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itThylacosmilus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riggs 1933