Dolicavia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaviidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Caviidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Caviidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Dolicavia 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
10 occurrences- Miocene27%
- Pliocene63%
- Pleistocene10%
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
7 formations
- Cerro Azul Formation3
- Chapadmalal Formation2
- Saldungaray-La Toma Formation1
- Río Quinto Formation1
- Puerto Belgrano Formation1
- Vorohué Formation1
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The named rock units Dolicavia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dolicavia and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dolicavia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Chorobates3 sites
- Cyonasua3 sites
- Doellotatus3 sites
- Lagostomus3 sites
- Macroeuphractus3 sites
- Orthomyctera3 sites
- Paedotherium minor3 sites
- Palaeocavia3 sites
- Proscelidodon3 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus3 sites
- Argyrohyus2 sites
- Argyrolagus2 sites
- Aspidocalyptus castroi2 sites
- Brachytherium2 sites
- Cardiomys2 sites
- Chasicotatus ameghinoi2 sites
- Coscinocercus2 sites
- Diheterocnus2 sites
- Doellotatus inornatus2 sites
- Eucoelophorus2 sites
- Hemihegetotherium achataleptum2 sites
- Hyperdidelphys2 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)2 sites
- Lagostomus pretrichodactyla2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dolicavia, 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
7 references- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections3
- Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina2
- Advances in the understanding of Neogene mammalian fauna in the Pampean region (central Argentina) through revising “biozone” hypotheses based on new dates and biochronological analyses1
- Eumysops marplatensis Olivares and Verzi 2015 (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Northern Pampa in Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications1
- Vertebrate taphonomy in loess-palaeosol deposits: A case study from the late Miocene of Central Argentina1
- Los mamiferos de la Formacion Rio Quinto (Plioceno), provincia de San Luis (Argentina). Aspectos bioestratigraficos, zoogeograficos y paleoambientales1
- Paleoneurologia de Dolicavia minuscula (Rodentia, Caviidae) y Paedotherium insigne (Notoungulata, Hegetotheriidae) del Plioceno de Buenos Aires, Argentina1
Each of the 10 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 Dolicavia 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 Dolicavia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dolicavia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCaviidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1916