Actenomys

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenomyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ctenomyidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.8 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPliocene — about 29 of 30 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8 Mya400 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Actenomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

30 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

7 formations

Irene — 38.60°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.67°S, 60.60°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WPlaya San Carlos — 38.09°S, 57.58°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°W

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The named rock units Actenomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actenomys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Actenomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Actenomys, 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

13 references

Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Actenomys priscus · MMP:1383M

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

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 itCtenomyidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1888