Brotomys
No picture of Brotomys was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 Brotomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeteropsomyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Echimyidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Echimyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Brotomys on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene46%
- Holocene55%
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.
Brotomys and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Brotomys and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Isolobodon2 sites
- Isolobodon portoricensis2 sites
- cf. Hyperplagodontia araeum1 site
- Chelonoidis marcanoi1 site
- Hexolobodon phenax1 site
- Insulacebus toussaintiana1 site
- Megalonychidae1 site
- Neocnus comes1 site
- Plagiodontia1 site
- Plagiodontia aedium1 site
- Rhizoplagiodontia lemkei1 site
- Rodentia indet.1 site
- Solenodon paradoxus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brotomys, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Endemic rodents of Hispaniola: biogeography and extinction timing during the Holocene1
- A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Brotomys was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 Brotomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brotomys 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeteropsomyinae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1916