Capromyinae

Capromyinae

Jensflorian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
hutiaPBDB
Sits inside
EchimyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

74 occurrences of Capromyinae on record. 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

74 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

2 formations

Lagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°W

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The named rock units Capromyinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Capromyinae, 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

18 references

Each of the 74 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Capromyinae

Credit
Jensflorian
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Capromyinae 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.

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What may have been alongside itEchimyidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1842)