Spaniomys modestus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpaniomysPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Spaniomys modestus 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Spaniomys modestus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spaniomys modestus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Spaniomys modestus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Neoreomys australis6 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus4 sites
- Acaremys murinus4 sites
- Acdestis oweni4 sites
- Perimys erutus4 sites
- Phanomys mixtus4 sites
- Scleromys osbornianus4 sites
- Stichomys4 sites
- Adelphomys candidus3 sites
- Luantus toldensis3 sites
- Steiromys duplicatus3 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata2 sites
- Branisamyopsis praesigmoides2 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica2 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus2 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei2 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus2 sites
- Prolagostomus2 sites
- Sciamys2 sites
- Acarechimys constans1 site
- Acarechimys gracilis1 site
- Acarechimys minutus1 site
- Acaremys messor1 site
- Acaremys tricarinatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spaniomys modestus, 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
4 references- Octodontoids and erethizontoids (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, Early-Middle Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina4
- A baseline paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late-early Miocene) at the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, Argentina2
- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications1
- Two new fossil vertebrate localities in the Santa Cruz Formation (late early – early middle Miocene, Argentina), ~ 51° South latitude1
Each of the 8 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 Spaniomys modestus 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 Spaniomys modestus, 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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What may have been alongside itSpaniomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887