Neatocastor hesperus
No picture of Neatocastor hesperus 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 Neatocastor hesperus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeatocastorPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Neatocastor hesperus 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
2 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 Neatocastor hesperus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neatocastor hesperus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neatocastor hesperus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Arretotherium acridens2 sites
- Alligator olseni1 site
- Anilioides nebraskensis1 site
- Atractosteus spatula1 site
- Batrachosauroides1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Centropomus1 site
- Daphoenodon notionastes1 site
- Dermatemys1 site
- Desmatippus texanus1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Diceratherium armatum1 site
- Dinohyus1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Erycinae1 site
- Floridachoerus olseni1 site
- Gavialosuchus1 site
- Geochelone1 site
- Gregorymys montanensis1 site
- Gulfoceras westfalli1 site
- Hesperhys1 site
- Ictalurus punctatus1 site
- Insectivora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Neatocastor hesperus, 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- Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain1
- New evidence of the Lower Miocene age of the Blacktail Deer Creek Formation in Montana1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Neatocastor hesperus 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 Neatocastor hesperus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neatocastor hesperus 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 itNeatocastor through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douglass 1902)