Ctenomyidae

Ctenomyidae

Annaliese Beery · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
OctodontoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
fossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 16 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 57 of 126 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 39 of 126 occurrencesPleistocene22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–5.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.0–4.3 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.3–3.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.6–2.9 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–717 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences717 ka–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences17.5 Mya11.7 ka21.5 Mya0 Mya

126 occurrences of Ctenomyidae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

126 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

32 formations

Irene — 38.60°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.67°S, 60.60°WIrene — 38.82°S, 60.54°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.92°S, 61.55°WCerro Azul — 38.74°S, 62.21°WCerro Azul — 38.70°S, 62.26°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 38.76°S, 62.16°WSan Andres — 38.18°S, 57.65°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WSan Andres — 38.00°S, 57.53°WUquía — 23.33°S, 65.33°WUquía — 23.24°S, 65.36°WUmala — 18.83°S, 66.15°WUmala — 17.08°S, 68.00°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WSarmiento — 42.50°S, 68.52°WSarmiento — 43.25°S, 65.30°WSarmiento — 43.30°S, 65.42°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°WMatadero Saldungaray — 38.25°S, 61.75°WMatadero Saldungaray — 38.75°S, 61.75°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WChichinales — 39.18°S, 67.71°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WDolores — 34.38°S, 57.88°WArroyo Seco — 38.27°S, 57.85°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WChacra La Blanqueada — 38.36°S, 62.15°WPlaya San Carlos — 38.09°S, 57.58°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WLibertad — 34.15°S, 58.01°WTafí del Valle — 26.92°S, 65.70°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°W

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The named rock units Ctenomyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenomyidae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ctenomyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

620 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Ctenomyidae, 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

65 references

Each of the 126 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. 53 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 content1

Picture of Ctenomyidae

Credit
Annaliese Beery
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenomyidae 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lesson 1842)