Argyrohyrax

Argyrohyrax is an extinct genus of interatheriid notoungulate that lived during the Late Oligocene, of what is now Argentina and Bolivia.

No picture of Argyrohyrax 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 Argyrohyrax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InteratheriidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.

Oligocene — about 14 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 19 occurrencesMiocene29–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29.5 Mya20.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Argyrohyrax 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

19 occurrences

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

4 formations

Sarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WFray Bentos — 29.33°S, 58.68°WFray Bentos — 29.09°S, 58.66°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°W

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The named rock units Argyrohyrax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argyrohyrax and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Argyrohyrax and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Argyrohyrax, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Argyrohyrax 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 Argyrohyrax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Argyrohyrax was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itInteratheriidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1897