Dinomys · Epoch Explorer

Uncredited · 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: pacaranaPBDB
Sits inside: DinomyidaePBDB
Diet: frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Dinomyidae
Life habit: ground dwellingPBDB
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

1 occurrence of Dinomys on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

1 occurrences

Holocene100%

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.

Dinomys and its relatives

Holocene

Where Dinomys and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dinomys, 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

1 reference

An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dinomys

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: nobody named on the record
Licence: not stated by the source
Commercial use: cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dinomys 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 it Dinomyidae through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1873