Neoreomys australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoreomysPBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
39 occurrences of Neoreomys australis 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
39 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
7 formations
- Santa Cruz Formation25
- Pinturas Formation8
- Rio Frias Formation2
- Galera Formation1
- Chinches Formation1
- Río Frias Formation1
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The named rock units Neoreomys australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neoreomys australis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neoreomys australis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Perimys erutus13 sites
- Stichomys12 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus11 sites
- Protypotherium praerutilum11 sites
- Acdestis oweni9 sites
- Hapalops9 sites
- Interatherium9 sites
- Perimys9 sites
- Steiromys duplicatus9 sites
- Thoatherium minusculum9 sites
- Adinotherium8 sites
- Hegetotherium mirabile8 sites
- Nesodon8 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus8 sites
- Prolagostomus8 sites
- Protypotherium8 sites
- Astrapotherium7 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica7 sites
- Eocardia7 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei7 sites
- Proeutatus oenophorum7 sites
- Protypotherium australe7 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis7 sites
- Spaniomys7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Neoreomys australis, 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
11 references- Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia14
- Neoreomys and Scleromys (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, late Early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina8
- Revision of the Miocene caviomorph rodents from the Río Santa Cruz (Argentinean Patagonia)5
- Paleobiology of Santacrucian caviomorph rodents: a morphofunctional approach3
- A baseline paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late-early Miocene) at the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, Argentina2
- Los roedores de la Edad Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Patagonia2
- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications1
- Fossil vertebrates of the early-middle Miocene Cerro Boleadoras Formation, northwestern Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Marco geológico-tectónico, contenido fosilífero y cronología de lo yacimientos cenozoicos pre-pleistocénicos de mamíferos terrestres fósiles de Chile1
- New Miocene mammal assemblages from Neogene Manantiales basin, Cordillera Frontal, San Juan, Argentina1
- A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics1
Each of the 39 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
Media content1
Picture of Neoreomys australis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neoreomys australis 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 itNeoreomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887