Metacaremys calfucalel
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetacaremysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Octodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Octodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Metacaremys calfucalel 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
8 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 Metacaremys calfucalel 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.
Metacaremys calfucalel and its relatives
MioceneWhere Metacaremys calfucalel and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Lagostomus pretrichodactyla6 sites
- Paedotherium minor6 sites
- Proscelidodon gracillimus6 sites
- Protabrocoma antiqua6 sites
- Chasicotatus ameghinoi5 sites
- Lagostomus telenkechanum5 sites
- Macrochorobates scalabrinii5 sites
- Pseudotypotherium subinsigne5 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus5 sites
- Aspidocalyptus castroi4 sites
- Chorobates villosissimus4 sites
- Coscinocercus4 sites
- Doellotatus inornatus4 sites
- Hemihegetotherium achataleptum4 sites
- Euphractini3 sites
- Macroeuphractus morenoi3 sites
- Pampamys emmonsae3 sites
- Reigechimys plesiodon3 sites
- Typotheriopsis chasicoensis3 sites
- Dolicavia2 sites
- Hesperocynus2 sites
- Lagostomus2 sites
- Macraucheniinae2 sites
- Mcdonaldocnus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Metacaremys calfucalel, 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
2 references- Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America7
- Late Miocene–Early Pliocene mammals from the Tupungato–Piedras Coloradas Anticlines, Mendoza, Argentina1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Metacaremys calfucalel 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 Metacaremys calfucalel, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metacaremys calfucalel 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 itMetacaremys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Piñero et al. 2021