Cavioidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HystricognathiPBDB
- 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 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
828 occurrences of Cavioidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
828 occurrencesThese 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
115 formations
- Santa Cruz Formation80
- Monte Hermoso Formation34
- Villavieja Formation · Honda Group34
- Cerro Azul Formation27
- Pinturas Formation25
- Sarmiento Formation23
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The named rock units Cavioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 230 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cavioidea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cavioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,522 taxa- Equus30 sites
- Caviidae26 sites
- Neochoerus21 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus21 sites
- Neochoerus aesopi18 sites
- Dasypus bellus17 sites
- Panthera onca17 sites
- Tapirus16 sites
- Neoreomys australis15 sites
- Orthomyctera15 sites
- Procyon lotor15 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala13 sites
- Hippidion13 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis13 sites
- Lagostomus13 sites
- Platygonus13 sites
- Aenocyon dirus12 sites
- Mammut americanum12 sites
- Phugatherium dichroplax12 sites
- Anura11 sites
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris11 sites
- Lynx rufus11 sites
- Megatherium11 sites
- Neochoerus pinckneyi11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 372 sites for Cavioidea, and this reads 240 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
277 references- Imigrantes em um continente perdido: O registro fossilífero de roedores Caviomorpha (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenohystrica) do Cenozoico do Brasil37
- Rodents of the La Venta Fauna, Miocene, Colombia: Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmentl implications35
- Revision of the Miocene caviomorph rodents from the Río Santa Cruz (Argentinean Patagonia)27
- Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia22
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections21
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene) at its type locality, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina18
- Eocardiids (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, Late early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina16
- Miocene vertebrates from Entre Rios province, eastern Argentina14
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update12
- Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina12
- Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxon11
- Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia11
Each of the 828 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. 265 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 Cavioidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cavioidea 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 itHystricognathi through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer de Waldheim 1817