Eosteiromys
No picture of Eosteiromys 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 Eosteiromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErethizontoideaPBDB
- 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 5.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Eosteiromys 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
23 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Eosteiromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eosteiromys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Eosteiromys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Luantus propheticus9 sites
- Perimys intermedius9 sites
- Prostichomys bowni9 sites
- Branisamyopsis praesigmoides8 sites
- Scleromys quadrangulatus8 sites
- Galileomys eurygnathus7 sites
- Tetramerorhinus fleaglei7 sites
- Carlocebus carmenensis6 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus6 sites
- Acdestis oweni5 sites
- Neoreomys australis5 sites
- Steiromys duplicatus5 sites
- Steiromys principalis5 sites
- Tetramerorhinus prosistens5 sites
- Eoviscaccia australis4 sites
- Nematherium4 sites
- Picturotherium migueli4 sites
- Proeutatus4 sites
- Protypotherium4 sites
- Prozaedyus4 sites
- Soriacebus adrianae4 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus3 sites
- Caviocricetus lucasi3 sites
- Luantus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Eosteiromys, 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
7 references- Octodontoids and erethizontoids (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, Early-Middle Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina10
- Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art6
- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications3
- Cavioids, Chinchilloids, and Erethizontoids (Hystricognathi, Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Early Miocene Pampa Castillo Fauna, Chile1
- New primate locality from the early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina1
- A new mammal fauna at the top of the Gran Barranca sequence and its biochronological significance1
- Estratigrafía y vertebrados (Aves y Mammalia) de la Formación Cerro Bandera, Mioceno Temprano de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina1
Each of the 23 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 Eosteiromys 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 Eosteiromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itErethizontoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1902