Cochlops muricatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CochlopsPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cochlops muricatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cochlops muricatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cochlops muricatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cochlops muricatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Adinotherium4 sites
- Nesodon4 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus4 sites
- Proeutatus4 sites
- Proeutatus oenophorum4 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus4 sites
- Stenotatus patagonicus4 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata3 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica3 sites
- Hapalops3 sites
- Interatherium extensus3 sites
- Neoreomys3 sites
- Neoreomys australis3 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus3 sites
- Stenotatus3 sites
- Acarechimys constans2 sites
- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Adinotherium ovinum2 sites
- Astrapotherium2 sites
- Astrapotherium magnum2 sites
- Eucholoeops ingens2 sites
- Hegetotherium mirabile2 sites
- Homunculus2 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cochlops muricatus, 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
3 references- Paleobiology of Santacrucian glyptodonts and armadillos (Xenarthra, Cingulata)3
- Cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) of the Santa Cruz Formation (Early-Middle Miocene) From the Río Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia2
- A review of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Cochlops muricatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cochlops muricatus 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 itCochlops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889