Maruchito
No picture of Maruchito 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 Maruchito, 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 most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 11 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Maruchito 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Maruchito has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maruchito and its relatives
MioceneWhere Maruchito and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Maruchito, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
3 references- Late early Miocene caviomorph rodents from Laguna del Laja (~37° S), Cura-Mallín Formation, south-central Chile1
- Chronologic implications of new Miocene mammals from the Cura-Mallín and Trapa Trapa formations, Laguna del Laja area, south Central Chile1
- Los roedores de la Formación Collon Curá (Mioceno Medio), y la ignimbrita Pilcaniyeu. Cañadón del Tordillo, Neuquen1
Each of the 3 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 Maruchito 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 Maruchito, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maruchito was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEchimyidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vucetich et al. 1993