Palaeocastor wahlerti
No picture of Palaeocastor wahlerti was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Palaeocastor wahlerti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeocastorPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 29.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Palaeocastor wahlerti on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Palaeocastor wahlerti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeocastor wahlerti and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaeocastor wahlerti and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Agnotocastor praetereadens2 sites
- Bathornis geographicus1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Disallomys robustus1 site
- Douglassciurus bjorki1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Epeiromys1 site
- Eumys brachyodus1 site
- Eutypomys wilsoni1 site
- Hesperopetes jamesi1 site
- Ischyromys typus1 site
- Kirkomys martintau1 site
- Leidymys blacki1 site
- Leidymys juxtaparvulus1 site
- Leptauchenia major1 site
- Leptochoerus supremus1 site
- Nimravus brachyops1 site
- Oligospermophilus1 site
- Oxetocyon cuspidatus1 site
- Paciculus cedrus1 site
- Paciculus nebraskensis1 site
- Paradjidaumo trilophus1 site
- Proharrymys wahlerti1 site
- Proscalops tertius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaeocastor wahlerti, 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- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Whitneyan (Middle Oligocene) Cedar Pass Fauna of South Dakota1
- Cranial morphology of some early beavers (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) of South Dakota1
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 Palaeocastor wahlerti was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Palaeocastor wahlerti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeocastor wahlerti was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itPalaeocastor through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 2001