Akodon (Akodon) azarae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Azara's grass mousePBDB
- Sits inside
- Akodon (Akodon)PBDB
- 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 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Akodon (Akodon) azarae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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 Akodon (Akodon) azarae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Akodon (Akodon) azarae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Akodon (Akodon) azarae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Galea3 sites
- Lestodelphys3 sites
- Chaetophractus villosus2 sites
- Doedicurus2 sites
- Eutatus seguini2 sites
- Glossotherium2 sites
- Glyptodon clavipes2 sites
- Hydromedusa tectifera2 sites
- Lestodon armatus2 sites
- Macraucheniopsis ensenadensis2 sites
- Oxymycterus2 sites
- Reithrodon auritus2 sites
- Tolypeutes2 sites
- Toxodon2 sites
- Akodon iniscatus1 site
- Anancinae1 site
- Bibimys labiosus1 site
- Callichthys1 site
- Calomys1 site
- Canis1 site
- Cavia1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chloephaga1 site
- Choephaga <sp.1>1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Akodon (Akodon) azarae, 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- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- Diversidade de pequenos mamíferos (Didelphimorphia e Rodentia) do Holoceno do nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: implicações taxonômicas e paleo ambientais1
- Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina1
- La fauna de vertebrados pleistocénicos del Bajo San José (provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Aspectos paleoambientales1
- Micromamiferos (Marsupialia y Rodentia) pleistocenicos de Santa Clara del Mar (Mar Chiquita, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Implicancias paleoambientales1
- Lestodelphys halli (Mammalia, Didelphidae) in Holocene sediments of Southern Buenos Aires Province (Argentina): Morphological and palaeoenvironmental considerations1
Each of the 6 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
Picture of Akodon (Akodon) azarae
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Akodon (Akodon) azarae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1829)