Eucelophorus

Eucelophorus is an extinct genus of ctenomyid rodent that lived in South America during the Pliocene epoch.

No picture of Eucelophorus 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 Eucelophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenomyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ctenomyidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Ctenomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 3.8 Mya to 3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5 Mya to 1.75 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8 Mya3 Mya5.5 Mya1.25 Mya

8 occurrences of Eucelophorus 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

8 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

5 formations

San Andres — 38.18°S, 57.65°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WSan Andres — 38.00°S, 57.53°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.92°S, 61.55°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WChapadmalal — 38.00°S, 57.53°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°W

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The named rock units Eucelophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eucelophorus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Eucelophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eucelophorus, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Eucelophorus 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 Eucelophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eucelophorus 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCtenomyidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1908