Luantus

Luantus is an extinct genus of caviomorph rodent that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavioideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 11 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 24 of 24 occurrencesMiocene21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21.5 Mya10.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Luantus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

24 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

Pinturas — 47.17°S, 70.21°WPinturas — 46.99°S, 70.59°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.67°WPinturas — 48.08°S, 70.08°WPinturas — 48.90°S, 70.17°WSarmiento — 43.30°S, 65.42°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WCura-Mallín — 37.65°S, 71.23°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°W

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The named rock units Luantus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Luantus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Luantus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Luantus, 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

9 references

Each of the 24 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

CT scan

Licence
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Commercial use
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Specimen
Luantus silbamanta · ip:vf:5106

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

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 itCavioidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1899