Entoptychus cavifrons
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntoptychusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Entoptychus cavifrons on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Entoptychus cavifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Entoptychus cavifrons and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Entoptychus cavifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Entoptychus minor2 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus2 sites
- Agriochoerus guyotianus1 site
- Allomys nitens1 site
- Allomys reticulatus1 site
- Archaeotherium1 site
- Canis geismarianus1 site
- Capacikala gradatus1 site
- Daeodon humerosus1 site
- Daeodon shoshonensis1 site
- Daphoenus1 site
- Daphoenus hartshornianus1 site
- Dyticonastis rensbergeri1 site
- Enhydrocyon basilatus1 site
- Enhydrocyon stenocephalus1 site
- Entoptychus crassiramis1 site
- Entoptychus planifrons1 site
- Entoptychus transitorius1 site
- Eporeodon occidentalis1 site
- Gentilicamelus sternbergi1 site
- Hesperocyon gregarius1 site
- Hoplophoneus strigidens1 site
- Hypertragulus calcaratus1 site
- Leptocyon douglassi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Entoptychus cavifrons, 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- Ecological correlates of the morphology of the auditory bulla in rodents: Application to the fossil record1
- Entoptychine pocket gophers (Mammalia, Geomyoidea) of the early Miocene John Day Formation, Oregon1
- Observations on the faunae of the Miocene Tertiaries of Oregon1
Each of the 3 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 Entoptychus cavifrons 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 Entoptychus cavifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Entoptychus cavifrons 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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What may have been alongside itEntoptychus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878