Neoepiblema

Russell K. Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- NeoepiblemidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11 Mya to 8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.8 Mya to 5 Mya.
15 occurrences of Neoepiblema 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
15 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Neoepiblema 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.
Neoepiblema and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neoepiblema and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
308 taxa- Purussaurus4 sites
- Acresuchus pachytemporalis3 sites
- Mourasuchus3 sites
- Phoberomys3 sites
- Potamarchus3 sites
- Potamarchus murinus3 sites
- Caiman2 sites
- Cardiatherium2 sites
- Caviodon2 sites
- Chelonoidis2 sites
- Colombophis spinosus2 sites
- Colossoma2 sites
- Cullinia2 sites
- Dasyproctidae2 sites
- Drytomomys2 sites
- Erethizontidae2 sites
- Eumegamys paranensis2 sites
- Gryposuchus2 sites
- Gyriabrus2 sites
- Haplodontherium wildei2 sites
- Iniidae2 sites
- Molossidae2 sites
- Mourasuchus arendsi2 sites
- Neoepiblemidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Neoepiblema, 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
10 references- The Acre vertebrate fauna: Age, diversity, and geography3
- Tropical fossil caviomorph rodents from the Southwestern Brazilian amazonia in the context of the South American faunas: systematics, biochronology and paleobiogeography2
- A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru2
- Anatomia craniana de Neoepiblema ambrosettianus (Ameghino, 1889)(Rodentia, Caviomorpha, Neoepiblemidae) do Mioceno Superior–Plioceno, estado do Acre, e revisao das especies do genero2
- Morphology of cheek teeth and dental replacement in the extinct rodent Neoepiblema Ameghino, 1889 (Caviomorpha, Chinchilloidea, Neoepiblemidae)1
- Imigrantes em um continente perdido: O registro fossilífero de roedores Caviomorpha (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenohystrica) do Cenozoico do Brasil1
- Giant rodents from the Neotropics: diversity and dental variation of late Miocene neoepiblemid remains from Urumaco, Venezuela1
- Life in the proto-Amazonia: middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia)1
- Miocene vertebrates from Entre Rios province, eastern Argentina1
- Neoepiblema acreensis, sp. n. (Mammalia, Rodentia) do Neogeno do Acre, Brasil1
Each of the 15 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

Picture of Neoepiblema
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Russell K. Engelman
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neoepiblema 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 itNeoepiblemidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889