Lagostominae

Lagostominae is a subfamily of the family Chinchillidae. It contains the genus Lagostomus and two extinct genera, Prolagostomus and Pliolagostomus.

Lagostominae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChinchillidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Chinchillidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Chinchillidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 51 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 113 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 25 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence698 ka–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

113 occurrences of Lagostominae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

113 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

34 formations

Cerro 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 — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 36.22°S, 65.06°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 36.84°S, 65.28°WCerro Azul — 37.28°S, 64.15°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.83°S, 60.54°WIrene — 38.74°S, 60.57°WIrene — 38.53°S, 60.60°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.22°S, 66.93°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.95°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.99°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WLuján — 37.00°S, 60.38°WLuján — 35.83°S, 58.02°WPuerto Madryn — 42.78°S, 63.68°WCura-Mallín — 37.50°S, 71.27°WCura-Mallín — 37.53°S, 71.22°WTezanos Pinto — 31.41°S, 62.14°WTezanos Pinto — 32.07°S, 60.65°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WChapadmalal — 38.11°S, 57.57°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WSaldungaray-La Toma — 38.75°S, 61.73°WMuyu Huasi — 19.04°S, 65.26°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WRío Quinto — 33.48°S, 65.73°WMauri — 17.20°S, 69.00°WLibertad — 34.38°S, 56.18°WLa Invernada — 33.24°S, 62.42°W

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The named rock units Lagostominae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagostominae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lagostominae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Lagostominae, 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

62 references

Each of the 113 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. 50 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 Lagostominae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Lagostominae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Wiegmann 1832