Eumysops

No picture of Eumysops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eumysops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchimyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Echimyidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Echimyidae
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.

Miocene — about 3 of 82 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 67 of 82 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 82 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 82 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–850 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5 Mya400 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

82 occurrences of Eumysops 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

82 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

13 formations

Chapadmalal — 38.27°S, 57.84°WChapadmalal — 38.24°S, 57.78°WChapadmalal — 38.19°S, 57.66°WChapadmalal — 38.18°S, 57.65°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.60°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WVorohué — 38.27°S, 57.84°WVorohué — 38.24°S, 57.78°WVorohué — 38.22°S, 57.73°WVorohué — 38.17°S, 57.64°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.30°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.54°S, 60.61°WSan Andres — 38.18°S, 57.65°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WBarranca de los Lobos — 38.24°S, 57.78°WBarranca de los Lobos — 38.19°S, 57.66°WBarranca de los Lobos — 38.17°S, 57.64°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WAlvear — 32.67°S, 60.63°WHernandarias — 32.67°S, 60.63°WCerro Azul — 37.28°S, 64.15°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WEl Polvorín — 36.99°S, 60.22°WTezanos Pinto — 32.07°S, 60.65°W

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The named rock units Eumysops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eumysops and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Eumysops and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Eumysops, 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

19 references

Each of the 82 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Eumysops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eumysops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eumysops was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itEchimyidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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