Tarapotomys subandinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TarapotomysPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tarapotomys subandinus 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
4 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 Tarapotomys subandinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tarapotomys subandinus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tarapotomys subandinus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Eoincamys valverdei4 sites
- Hydrolycus4 sites
- Lepidosirenidae4 sites
- Caimaninae3 sites
- Caviomorpha3 sites
- Characiformes3 sites
- Charophyceae3 sites
- Eoincamys parvus3 sites
- Eusuchia3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Leporinus3 sites
- Magnoliopsida3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Pelomedusoidea indet.3 sites
- Plantae3 sites
- Proargyrolagus3 sites
- Serrasalminae indet.3 sites
- Trichodactylidae3 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Argyrolagoidea2 sites
- Helisoma2 sites
- Palaeothentinae2 sites
- Palaeothentoidea2 sites
- Parastegosimpsonia peruana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tarapotomys subandinus, 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
2 references- Biotic community and landscape changes around the Eocene–Oligocene transition at Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia: Regional or global drivers?2
- Early Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia2
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tarapotomys subandinus 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 Tarapotomys subandinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tarapotomys subandinus 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 itTarapotomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boivin et al. 2018