Eucoelophorus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OctodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Octodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Octodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 200 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 3.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
6 occurrences of Eucoelophorus 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Eucoelophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eucoelophorus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Eucoelophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Doellotatus3 sites
- Orthomyctera3 sites
- Argyrohyus2 sites
- Argyrolagus2 sites
- Brachytherium2 sites
- Cardiomys2 sites
- Chorobates2 sites
- Cyonasua2 sites
- Diheterocnus2 sites
- Dolicavia2 sites
- Hyperdidelphys2 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)2 sites
- Lutreolina tracheia2 sites
- Macrochorobates2 sites
- Macroeuphractus2 sites
- Microcavia2 sites
- Phugatherium2 sites
- Platygonus marplatensis2 sites
- Plohophoroides2 sites
- Proscelidodon2 sites
- Telicomys2 sites
- Thylacosmilidae2 sites
- Trachycalyptus2 sites
- Xotodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Eucoelophorus, 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- Fossil ctenomyine rodents of the genus Eucelophorus (Caviomorpha: Octodontidae) from the Pliocene and early Pleistocene of Argentina3
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections2
- Estratigrafía, vertebrados fósiles y evolución tectosedimentaria de los depósitos neógenos del Bloque de San Rafael (Mioceno-Plioceno), Mendoza, Argentina1
Each of the 6 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 Eucoelophorus 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 Eucoelophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eucoelophorus 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 itOctodontidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1909