Dankomys
No picture of Dankomys 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 Dankomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReithrodontiniPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Dankomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Dankomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dankomys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dankomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Akodon (Abrothrix) magnus2 sites
- Dolicavia2 sites
- Dolichotis2 sites
- Lagostomus2 sites
- Phugatherium2 sites
- Ringueletia simpsoni2 sites
- Xotodon2 sites
- Abrothrix kermacki1 site
- Actenomys1 site
- Akodon lorenzinii1 site
- Argyrohyus1 site
- Argyrolagus1 site
- Brachytherium1 site
- Cardiatherium talicei1 site
- Cardiomys1 site
- Caviidae1 site
- Caviodon pozzii1 site
- Chapadmalania sp.1 site
- Cholomys pearsoni1 site
- Chorobates1 site
- Cyonasua1 site
- Didelphis1 site
- Didelphis crucialis1 site
- Diheterocnus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dankomys, 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
3 references- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections3
- Estratigrafía, paleontología y paleoambientes del Plioceno de la provincia de Córdoba1
- Las Caleras, provincia de Córdoba, primer yacimiento fosilífero de origen cárstico de Argentina1
Each of the 5 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 Dankomys 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 Dankomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dankomys 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 itReithrodontini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reig 1978