Andinomys

Ignacio Ferro · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Andinomys on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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 Andinomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Andinomys and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Andinomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Akodon3 sites
- Calomys musculinus3 sites
- Ctenomys3 sites
- Galea leucoblephara3 sites
- Oxymycterus3 sites
- Reithrodon auritus3 sites
- Tafimys powelli3 sites
- Abrothrix2 sites
- Cavia tschudii2 sites
- Oligoryzomys2 sites
- Phyllotis2 sites
- Abrocoma1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Arctotherium tarijense1 site
- Arctotherium wingei1 site
- Bufo cf. marinus horribilis1 site
- Calomys1 site
- Canis proplatensis1 site
- Canis tarijensis1 site
- Ceratophrys1 site
- Cervus percultus1 site
- Cervus tuberculatus1 site
- Chaetophractus villosus1 site
- Charitoceros1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Andinomys, 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
5 references- Síntesis actualizada del registro paleontológico pleistoceno en el Noroeste argentino1
- Evolution of small mammal communities during the late Quaternary in a middle-altitude valley of Northwestern Argentina1
- Roedores y Marsupiales en Torno Al Límite Pleistoceno/Holoceno en Catamarca, Argentina: Extinciones y Evolución Ambiental1
- A New Fossil Phyllotine (Rodentia: Muridae) from Northwestern Argentina and Relationships of Reithrodon Group1
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review1
Each of the 5 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 Andinomys
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Ignacio Ferro
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Andinomys 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1902