Castoroides dilophidus

Castoroides dilophidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CastoroidesPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Castoridae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 38 of 43 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Castoroides dilophidus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

43 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

6 formations

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WWando — 33.08°N, 79.94°WCanepatch — 33.68°N, 78.88°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°W

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The named rock units Castoroides dilophidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Castoroides dilophidus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Castoroides dilophidus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

431 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Castoroides dilophidus, 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

4 references

Each of the 43 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

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Picture of Castoroides dilophidus

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Credit
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Licence
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No 3D scan of Castoroides dilophidus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martin 1969)