Eucastor

Eucastor

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
NothodipoidiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Castoridae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 61 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 64 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 64 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.5–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–8.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12.5 Mya3.55 Mya23.5 Mya1.3 Mya

64 occurrences of Eucastor 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

64 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

14 formations

Valentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.90°N, 98.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.13°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WStatenville — 30.90°N, 82.90°W"Madison Valley Equivalent" — 45.20°N, 112.00°WSalt Lake — 41.50°N, 112.90°WNorth Park — 41.80°N, 107.00°WZia — 35.70°N, 107.00°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WFort Randall — 43.49°N, 99.27°WLoup Fork — 42.70°N, 102.50°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Eucastor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucastor and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eucastor and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Eucastor, 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

33 references

Each of the 64 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. 21 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 Eucastor

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Eucastor 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 itNothodipoidini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1877