Prolagostomus pusillus
No picture of Prolagostomus pusillus 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 Prolagostomus pusillus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlagostomusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Chinchillidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Chinchillidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 13.8 Mya.
9 occurrences of Prolagostomus pusillus 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
9 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Galera Formation3
- Collón Cura Formation2
- Santa Cruz Formation2
- Rio Frias Formation1
- Cerro Boleadoras Formation · Río Zeballos Group1
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The named rock units Prolagostomus pusillus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prolagostomus pusillus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Prolagostomus pusillus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Neoreomys australis5 sites
- Stichomys5 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus4 sites
- Acarechimys minutus4 sites
- Acarechimys constans3 sites
- Eocardia (Dicardia) excavata3 sites
- Eocardia montana3 sites
- Perimys3 sites
- Perimys erutus3 sites
- Perimys onustus3 sites
- Pliolagostomus3 sites
- Pliolagostomus notatus3 sites
- Protypotherium3 sites
- Sciamys principalis3 sites
- Spaniomys riparius3 sites
- Steiromys3 sites
- Steiromys duplicatus3 sites
- Stichomys regularis3 sites
- Thoatherium minusculum3 sites
- Acarechimys2 sites
- Acarechimys gracilis2 sites
- Acaremys murinus2 sites
- Adinotherium2 sites
- Astrapotherium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Prolagostomus pusillus, 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
6 references- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications2
- A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics2
- Los roedores de la Edad Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Patagonia2
- Cavioids, Chinchilloids, and Erethizontoids (Hystricognathi, Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Early Miocene Pampa Castillo Fauna, Chile1
- Fossil vertebrates of the early-middle Miocene Cerro Boleadoras Formation, northwestern Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Revision of the Miocene caviomorph rodents from the Río Santa Cruz (Argentinean Patagonia)1
Each of the 9 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 Prolagostomus pusillus 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 Prolagostomus pusillus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prolagostomus pusillus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProlagostomus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887