Phoberomys burmeisteri

Phoberomys burmeisteri is an extinct rodent that lived during the late Miocene in southern South America. It lived in wetland environments, such as swamps and marshes, where it likely fed on aquatic plants and grasses. Their remains were recovered from the Ituzaingó Formation in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.

No picture of Phoberomys burmeisteri 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 Phoberomys burmeisteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhoberomysPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPliocene8.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5 Mya4.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Phoberomys burmeisteri 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

7 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

1 formation

Ituzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°W

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The named rock units Phoberomys burmeisteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phoberomys burmeisteri and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phoberomys burmeisteri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phoberomys burmeisteri, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Phoberomys burmeisteri 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 Phoberomys burmeisteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phoberomys burmeisteri 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kraglievich 1926