Dudumus
Dudumus is an extinct genus of octodontoid rodent that lived during the Early Miocene.
No picture of Dudumus 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 Dudumus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OctodontoideaPBDB
- 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 5.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dudumus 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dudumus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dudumus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dudumus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Acarechimys minutissimus3 sites
- Luantus3 sites
- Prospaniomys3 sites
- Acarechimys constans2 sites
- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Acaremys preminutus2 sites
- Adinotherium2 sites
- Astrapotherium2 sites
- Australoprocta fleaglei2 sites
- Caviocricetus lucasi2 sites
- Chelonoidis gringorum2 sites
- Chinchilloidea2 sites
- Eocardia2 sites
- Eocardia (Dicardia) excavata2 sites
- Eosteiromys2 sites
- Eosteiromys homogenidens2 sites
- Eoviscaccia australis2 sites
- Galileomys antelucanus2 sites
- Homalodotherium2 sites
- Luantus minor2 sites
- Neoreomys australis2 sites
- Nesodon2 sites
- Octodontoidea2 sites
- Palaeothentes intermedius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dudumus, 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- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications2
- Revision of the Miocene caviomorph rodents from the Río Santa Cruz (Argentinean Patagonia)1
- A new early Miocene octodontoid rodent (Hystricognathi, Caviomorpha) from Patagonia (Argentina) and a reassessment of the early evolution of Octodontoidea1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Dudumus 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 Dudumus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dudumus 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Dudumus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOctodontoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arnal et al. 2014