Pithanotomys

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–822 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences822 ka–548 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya8.5 Mya274 ka

25 occurrences of Pithanotomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

25 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

10 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WAndalhuala — 27.22°S, 66.93°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WSan Andres — 38.18°S, 57.65°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WMaimará — 23.62°S, 65.41°WSaldungaray — 38.42°S, 61.78°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WBarranca de los Lobos — 38.12°S, 57.70°W

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The named rock units Pithanotomys 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.

Pithanotomys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pithanotomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Pithanotomys, 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 25 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

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No picture of Pithanotomys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pithanotomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Ameghino 1887