Castillomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MuridaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
48 occurrences of Castillomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
48 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene58%
- Pleistocene32%
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
6 formations
- Baza Formation4
- Alfambra Formation3
- Valdeganga Formation3
- Alcala Formation3
- Guadix Formation1
- Esbarrondadoiro Formation1
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The named rock units Castillomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Castillomys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Castillomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
376 taxa- Mimomys24 sites
- Apodemus23 sites
- Stephanomys20 sites
- Prolagus17 sites
- Eliomys intermedius13 sites
- Oryctolagus12 sites
- Allohippus stenonis11 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus8 sites
- Eliomys quercinus7 sites
- Soricidae7 sites
- Episoriculus gibberodon6 sites
- Equus6 sites
- Gazella6 sites
- Lacertidae6 sites
- Mammuthus meridionalis6 sites
- Paraethomys6 sites
- Canis etruscus5 sites
- Hystrix5 sites
- Occitanomys brailloni5 sites
- Vipera5 sites
- Allophaiomys4 sites
- Apodemus mystacinus4 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus4 sites
- Blancomys4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Castillomys, 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
25 references- Les Formations continentales du Neogene superieur des vallees du Jucar et du Cabriel au ne d'Albacete (Espagne). Biostratigraphie et environment.6
- The Pliocene Moreda Karstic complex5
- Micromamiferos del Mioceno, Plioceno y Pleistoceno de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza (Granada)5
- The Pliocene-Pleistocene section of the Fuente Nueva (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin, Prov. of Granada, Spain) and the Fuente Nueva 3 site3
- Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocene des Pyrenees-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938)3
- La sucesion de micromamiferos en el complejo carstico de Casablanca (Almenara, Castellon): problematica biogeografica3
- Rodent faunas of the Mio-Pliocene continental sediments of the Teruel-Alfambra region, Spain3
- Mimomys occitanus de Villalba Alta et Arquillo 3 (Espagne)2
- Upper Pliocene Rodentia, Lagomorpha and Insectivora (Mammalia) from the isle of Rhodes (Greece). I, II and III.2
- A Mammalian Lost World in Southwest Europe during the Late Pliocene1
- Une faune tres diversifee du Pleistocene inferieur de la Sierra de Quibas (province de Murcia, Espagne)1
- The Huelago-Road site1
Each of the 48 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Castillomys 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 Castillomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Castillomys 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michaux 1969