Ondatra

Ondatra

David Menke · Public Domain · 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
Also called
muskratPBDB
Sits inside
OndatriniPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 175 occurrencesPliocene — about 32 of 175 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 133 of 175 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 10 of 175 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 57 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

175 occurrences of Ondatra 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

175 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

25 formations

Glenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 115.70°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 39.00°N, 98.20°WSappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WSappa — 40.20°N, 99.40°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WSalt Lake — 42.50°N, 112.10°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WBacons Castle — 38.16°N, 76.83°WWaccamaw — 33.67°N, 79.83°W

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The named rock units Ondatra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 118 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ondatra and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ondatra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Ondatra, 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

97 references

Each of the 175 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. 85 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 content2

Picture of Ondatra

Credit
David Menke
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itOndatrini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1795