Oligoryzomys flavescens

Enrique González · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- OligoryzomysPBDB
- 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 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Oligoryzomys flavescens on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Oligoryzomys flavescens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oligoryzomys flavescens and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Oligoryzomys flavescens and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Akodon1 site
- Calomys musculinus1 site
- Caviidae1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Ctenomys1 site
- Eligmodontia1 site
- Galea leucoblephara1 site
- Graomys griseoflavus1 site
- Microcavia australis1 site
- Phyllotis xanthopygus1 site
- Reithrodon auritus1 site
- Thylamys pallidior1 site
- Tympanoctomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Oligoryzomys flavescens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Small mammals taphonomy and environmental evolution during Late Pleistocene-Holocene in Monte Desert: The evidence of Gruta del Indio (central west Argentina)1
- A New Fossil Phyllotine (Rodentia: Muridae) from Northwestern Argentina and Relationships of Reithrodon Group1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Enrique González
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oligoryzomys flavescens was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOligoryzomys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1837