Lontra longicaudis longicaudis

in Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny · Public Domain · 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
- Lontra longicaudisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Lontra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 389 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lontra longicaudis longicaudis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lontra longicaudis longicaudis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lontra longicaudis longicaudis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lontra longicaudis longicaudis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Arctotherium1 site
- Asthenopterus minutus1 site
- Calomys callosus1 site
- Cathartes fossilis1 site
- Chaetophractus villosus1 site
- Ctenomys1 site
- Ctenomys magellanicus1 site
- Doedicurus clavicaudatus1 site
- Dolichotis patagonum1 site
- Dusicyon avus1 site
- Equus caballus1 site
- Eulamaops1 site
- Glossotherium1 site
- Glossotherium robustum1 site
- Glyptodon1 site
- Glyptodon clavipes1 site
- Glyptodon reticulatus1 site
- Gomphotheriidae1 site
- Hemiauchenia paradoxa1 site
- Holochilus brasiliensis1 site
- Lagostomus maximus1 site
- Lama guanicoe1 site
- Lestodon1 site
- Lyncodon patagonicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lontra longicaudis longicaudis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lontra longicaudis longicaudis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- in Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lontra longicaudis longicaudis 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 itLontra longicaudis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olfers 1818