Acarechimys

Acarechimys is an extinct genus of caviomorph rodent that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OctodontoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 82 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 81 of 82 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 31 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21 Mya11.63 Mya29.5 Mya6.7 Mya

82 occurrences of Acarechimys 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

82 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

15 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSanta Cruz — 49.60°S, 69.53°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.18°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 71.78°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WCollón Cura — 40.03°S, 70.80°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WPinturas — 46.96°S, 70.61°WPinturas — 48.90°S, 70.17°WPinturas — 48.97°S, 71.40°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.14°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.20°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WCura-Mallín — 37.65°S, 71.23°WIpururo — 10.63°S, 73.92°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WMonte Leon — 50.34°S, 68.96°WNazareno — 21.67°S, 65.58°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°W

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The named rock units Acarechimys 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.

Acarechimys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Acarechimys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

442 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Acarechimys, 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

23 references

Each of the 82 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. 11 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Acarechimys 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patterson 1965