Cephalomys arcidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CephalomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 17.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Cephalomys arcidens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
12 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cephalomys arcidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cephalomys arcidens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cephalomys arcidens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Ancylocoelus frequens2 sites
- Archaeohyrax patagonicus2 sites
- Argyrohyrax proavus2 sites
- Asmodeus osborni2 sites
- Australohyaena antiqua2 sites
- Chubutomys simpsoni2 sites
- Cramauchenia normalis2 sites
- Deseadomys arambourgi2 sites
- Eoviscaccia australis2 sites
- Hegetotheriidae2 sites
- Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus2 sites
- Litodontomys chubutensis2 sites
- Meteutatus lagenaformis2 sites
- Parastrapotherium holmbergi2 sites
- Progaleopithecus tournoueri2 sites
- Protosteiromys medianus2 sites
- Prozaedyus2 sites
- Scotamys antiquus2 sites
- Stenotatus2 sites
- Trachytherus spegazzinianus2 sites
- Acarechimys leucotheae1 site
- Acdestodon bonapartei1 site
- Acdestoides praecursor1 site
- Andrewsornis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cephalomys arcidens, 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
5 references- The rodents of the Deseadan Oligocene of Patagonia and the beginnings of South American rodent evolution4
- Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]4
- Loomis, 19142
- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications1
- New remains of Cephalomys arcidens (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) and a redefinition of the enigmatic Cephalomyidae1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Cephalomys arcidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cephalomys arcidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cephalomys arcidens 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 itCephalomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1897