{"id":214461,"date":"2016-03-24T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=214461"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:42:54","slug":"an-old-mammal-from-taubate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/an-old-mammal-from-taubate\/","title":{"rendered":"An old mammal from Taubat\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_214463\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-214463\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/012-013_Tecnociencia_237-11-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Complete reconstruction of T. paulacoutoi skeleton, on display in the city of Taubat\u00e9\" width=\"290\" height=\"166\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Graziella do Couto Ribeiro<\/span>Complete reconstruction of<em> T. paulacoutoi<\/em> skeleton, on display in the city of Taubat\u00e9<span class=\"media-credits\">Graziella do Couto Ribeiro<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><i>Taubatherium paulacoutoi<\/i><\/em> lived 23 to 24 million years ago in the area now occupied by the Trememb\u00e9 Formation in the Taubat\u00e9 Basin, on the S\u00e3o Paulo State side of the Para\u00edba Valley.\u00a0 The now-extinct mammal was thoroughly studied by paleontologist Graziella do Couto Ribeiro while pursuing her doctorate, defended in September 2015 at the Biosciences Institute of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (IB-USP).\u00a0 Based on an analysis of 490 teeth and bones from several specimens of the species, whose fossils were first discovered in the 1970s by paleontologist Herculano Alvarenga, Ribeiro completed an anatomic and comparative description of the animal&#8217;s skeleton.\u00a0 The study revealed that <em><i>T. paulacoutoi<\/i><\/em>, which belonged to the extinct ungulate family Leontiniidae, was approximately 1.80 meter long and 80 centimeters tall, and weighed between 280 and 350 kilograms.\u00a0 This means that its body size and weight made it comparable to modern species of equids (horses, donkeys and zebras).\u00a0 \u201cThese characteristics support the hypothesis that it was a herbivore of gregarious habits, living in herds at the edge of a paleolake,\u201d says the researcher.\u00a0 The study also permitted the first reconstruction of a complete skeleton of the species, now on display at the Taubat\u00e9 Museum of Natural History (MHNT), founded and chaired by Alvarenga and where Ribeiro works as a researcher.\u00a0 <em><i>T. paulacoutoi<\/i><\/em> is part of the extinct mammal fauna of the Taubat\u00e9 Basin, which included a number of endemic species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An analysis completed a comparative description of the animal&#8217;s skeleton","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[255],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-214461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-paleontology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214461"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=214461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}