Phoberomys

Phoberomys is an extinct genus of rodents. Fossil specimens from the Late Miocene period have been discovered in the Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina, the Solimões Formation of Brazil, the Urumaco Formation at Urumaco in Venezuela, and the Pliocene of Peru.

Phoberomys

Juan D. Carrillo · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 35 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

38 occurrences of Phoberomys 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

38 occurrences

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

5 formations

Urumaco — 11.24°N, 70.25°WUrumaco — 11.24°N, 70.31°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.22°WUrumaco — 11.28°N, 70.25°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WSolimoes — 7.66°S, 72.54°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WMadre de Dios — 12.07°S, 69.74°W

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The named rock units Phoberomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phoberomys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phoberomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

355 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Phoberomys, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Phoberomys

Credit
Juan D. Carrillo
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phoberomys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Kraglievich 1926