Dipoides

Dipoides is an extinct genus of beaver-grouped rodents.

Dipoides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 51 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 72 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4 Mya1.4 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Dipoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

72 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

27 formations

Alkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WAlkali Canyon — 45.69°N, 120.15°WAlfambra — 40.39°N, 2.61°WAlfambra — 40.35°N, 2.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WChalk Hills — 43.00°N, 118.00°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WChalk Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°W"Coal Valley" — 39.00°N, 119.20°WTeewinot — 43.90°N, 110.80°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WRattlesnake — 44.50°N, 119.30°WHole-in-the-wall Diatomite — 43.00°N, 114.90°WThousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WPopotosa — 34.80°N, 106.90°WGarrity — 37.86°N, 122.12°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WBon Homme Gravel — 43.00°N, 97.40°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°W

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The named rock units Dipoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dipoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

820 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Dipoides, 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

41 references

Each of the 72 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. 29 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 content2

Picture of Dipoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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CT scan

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Specimen
Dipoides smithi · UCMP:V:113432

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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. Jaeger 1835