Eira barbara

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Also called

tayraPBDB

Sits inside

EiraPBDB

Diet

carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Mustelidae

Life habit

scansorialPBDB, for Eira

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Mass

100 gWikidata

• Pleistocene48%
• Holocene52%

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.

Where Eira barbara and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Pecari tajacu5 sites
• Puma concolor5 sites
• Cuniculus paca4 sites
• Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus4 sites
• Didelphis marsupialis4 sites
• Leopardus pardalis4 sites
• Oryzomys4 sites
• Sciurus4 sites
• Alouatta seniculus3 sites
• Coendou prehensilis3 sites
• Cyclopes3 sites
• Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris3 sites
• Mazama americana3 sites
• Metachirus nudicaudatus3 sites
• Myrmecophaga tridactyla3 sites
• Nasua nasua3 sites
• Panthera onca3 sites
• Potos flavus3 sites
• Proechimys3 sites
• Puma yagouaroundi3 sites
• Tamandua tetradactyla3 sites
• Tayassu pecari3 sites
• Aotus trivirgatus2 sites
• Ateles paniscus2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eira barbara, 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.

• Georeferencing fossiliferous localities from Solimões and Acre Basins (Brazil) -what we know so far about Solimões Formation and future perspectivesLacerda et al., 2021 · Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências · journal article1
• Mammalian fossils from Gruta do Ioiô cave and past of the Chapada Diamantina, northeastern Brazil, using taphonomy, radiocarbon dating and paleoecologyEltink et al., 2020 · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · journal article1
• A Late Pleistocene Guloninae (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from South America (Argentina, Entre Ríos province), biogeographic implicationsSchiaffini et al., 2017 · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · journal article1
• Novos achados de mamiferos carnivoros do Pleistoceno final-Holoceno em grutas calcarias do Estado da BahiaLessa et al., 1998 · Acta Geologica Leopoldensia · journal article1
• Barro Colorado Island and Tropical BiologyLeigh and Wright, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems ProjectLovejoy and Bierregaard, Jr., 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed.1
• An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan HabitatsEisenberg et al., 1979 · Vertebrate Ecology in the Northern Neotropics, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.1

Each of the 8 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.

What may have been alongside itEira through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)