Caviodon

Caviodon is an extinct genus of Late Miocene to Late Pliocene rodents, related to the modern capybara. Fossils of Caviodon have been found in Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaviidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Caviidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Caviidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Caviodon 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

13 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

8 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WAndalhuala — 27.22°S, 66.93°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°W

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The named rock units Caviodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caviodon and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Caviodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

450 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Caviodon, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itCaviidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1885