Acaremys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcaremyidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Acaremys 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
23 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Acaremys 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.
Acaremys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acaremys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Acarechimys minutissimus8 sites
- Acdestis oweni7 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei7 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus7 sites
- Acarechimys minutus6 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica6 sites
- Neoreomys australis6 sites
- Palaeothentes intermedius6 sites
- Perimys erutus6 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis6 sites
- Adinotherium5 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata5 sites
- Microbiotherium tehuelchum5 sites
- Nesodon5 sites
- Prolagostomus5 sites
- Protypotherium5 sites
- Spaniomys5 sites
- Stichomys5 sites
- Acarechimys constans4 sites
- Acarechimys gracilis4 sites
- Astrapotherium4 sites
- Hapalops4 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus4 sites
- Interatherium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Acaremys, 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
7 references- Revision of the fossil rodent Acaremys Ameghino, 1887 (Hystricognathi, Octodontoidea, Acaremyidae) from the Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina) and the description of a new acaremyid16
- Revision of the Miocene caviomorph rodents from the Río Santa Cruz (Argentinean Patagonia)2
- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications1
- Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the coastal Monte Leon and Santa Cruz formations (Early Miocene) at Rincon del Buque, Southern Patagonia: A revisited locality1
- Fossil localities of the Santa Cruz Formation (Early Miocene, Patagonia, Argentina) prospected by Carlos Ameghino in 1887 revisited and the location of the Notohippidian1
- A new mammal fauna at the top of the Gran Barranca sequence and its biochronological significance1
- New Miocene rodents from Patagonia (Argentina) and their bearing on the early radiation of the Octodontoids (Hystricognathi)1
Each of the 23 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Acaremys sp. · dpc:IGM 184299
No picture of Acaremys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acaremys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcaremyidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887