Gaudeamus

Hesham M. Sallam, Erik R. Seiffert and Elwyn L. Simons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaudeamuridaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
10 occurrences of Gaudeamus on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gaudeamus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Talahphiomys lavocati4 sites
- Birkamys korai3 sites
- Metaphiomys schaubi3 sites
- Hyainailourinae2 sites
- Megalohyrax eocaenus2 sites
- Mubhammys atlanticus2 sites
- Neophiomys minutus2 sites
- Neophiomys paraphiomyoides2 sites
- Nonanomalurus parvus2 sites
- Paranomalurus riodeoroensis2 sites
- Phenacophiomys occidentalis2 sites
- Phiocricetomys2 sites
- Aegyptopithecus zeuxis1 site
- Aframonius dieides1 site
- Afrohypselodontus grandis1 site
- Afrohypselodontus minus1 site
- Akhnatenavus nefertiticyon1 site
- Anaptomorphinae1 site
- Anchomomys milleri1 site
- Antilohyrax pectidens1 site
- Apidium phiomense1 site
- Apterodon1 site
- Arenagale calcareus1 site
- Argouburus minutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gaudeamus, 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
5 references- Craniodental Morphology and Systematics of a New Family of Hystricognathous Rodents (Gaudeamuridae) from the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Egypt4
- Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications2
- Early cenozoic mammalian faunas, Fayum Province, Egypt. 2, The African oligocene Rodentia2
- Eocene aridity in southwestern Africa: timing of onset and biological consequences1
- Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov. (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the early Oligocene of Zallah, Libya: first African caviomorph?1
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 content1

Picture of Gaudeamus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hesham M. Sallam, Erik R. Seiffert and Elwyn L. Simons
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gaudeamus 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 itGaudeamuridae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1968