Palaeocavia

No picture of Palaeocavia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeocavia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 11 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.333 Mya400 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Palaeocavia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

24 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

10 formations

Cerro Azul — 38.74°S, 62.21°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 38.70°S, 62.26°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMaimará — 23.62°S, 65.41°WBrochero — 31.92°S, 64.57°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°W

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The named rock units Palaeocavia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeocavia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Palaeocavia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

450 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Palaeocavia, 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

16 references

Each of the 24 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. 4 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 content0

No picture of Palaeocavia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeocavia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCaviinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889