Procastoroides

Procastoroides is an extinct genus of beaver-grouped rodents.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CastoroidinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Castoridae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPliocene — about 14 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.83 Mya900 ka

21 occurrences of Procastoroides 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

21 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

4 formations

Glenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Procastoroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procastoroides and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Procastoroides and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Procastoroides, 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

16 references

Each of the 21 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. 4 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Procastoroides 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
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCastoroidinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barbour and Schultz 1937