Troposodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SthenurinaePBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Troposodon 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
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 Troposodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Troposodon and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Troposodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Macropus5 sites
- Protemnodon5 sites
- Vombatus4 sites
- Aepyprymnus rufescens2 sites
- Antechinus flavipes2 sites
- Chelidae2 sites
- Dasyurus2 sites
- Diprotodontidae2 sites
- Isoodon obesulus2 sites
- Macropodidae2 sites
- Macropus atlas2 sites
- Palorchestes2 sites
- Perameles nasuta2 sites
- Phascolomys2 sites
- Procoptodon rapha2 sites
- Protemnodon brehus2 sites
- Simosthenurus maddocki2 sites
- Sminthopsis murina2 sites
- Sthenurus andersoni2 sites
- Thylacinus2 sites
- Thylacoleo carnifex2 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula2 sites
- Varanus2 sites
- Vombatidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Troposodon, 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
6 references- Marsupial fossils from Wellington Caves, New South Wales; the historic and scientific significance of the collections in the Australian Museum, Sydney2
- Pliocene paleoenvironments of southeastern Queensland, Australia inferred from stable isotopes of marsupial tooth enamel1
- The Curramulka local fauna: a new Late Tertiary fossil assemblage from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia1
- Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil vertebrate localities in southeastern Australia1
- The Munich collection of Wellington Cave fossil marsupials1
- A new species of Troposodon Bartholomai, from the early Pleistocene Kanunka fauna, South Australia (Macropodinae, Marsupialia)1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Troposodon 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 Troposodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Troposodon 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 itSthenurinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bartholomai 1967