Sallamys pascuali

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SallamysPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sallamys pascuali on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Sallamys pascuali 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.
Sallamys pascuali and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Sallamys pascuali and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Brucemacfaddenia boliviensis2 sites
- Eurygenium pacegnum2 sites
- Notogale mitis2 sites
- Peltephilus2 sites
- Proargyrolagus bolivianus2 sites
- Acamana1 site
- Anayatherium1 site
- Anayatherium ekecoa1 site
- Anayatherium fortis1 site
- Andinogale sallensis1 site
- Archaeohyrax1 site
- Archaeohyrax suniensis1 site
- Argyrohyrax1 site
- Asteromys bolivianus1 site
- Astrapotheriidae1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Borhyaeninae1 site
- Branisamys luribayensis1 site
- Branisella boliviana1 site
- Calyptocephalella1 site
- Caviomorpha1 site
- Coniopternium primitivum1 site
- Dasypodidae1 site
- Dasyproctidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sallamys pascuali, 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
3 references- Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and Mammalian fauna of the Deseadan (late Oligocene-early Miocene) Salla Beds of Northern Bolivia1
- Rodents from the Deseadan Oligocene of Bolivia and the relationships of the Caviomorpha1
- Rongeurs Caviomorphes de l'Oligocène de Bolivie. 2 Rongeurs du Bassin Deseadien de Salla-Luribat1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Sallamys pascuali
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sallamys pascuali 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 itSallamys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoffstetter and Lavocat 1970