Pithanotomys macer
No picture of Pithanotomys macer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pithanotomys macer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PithanotomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Octodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Octodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 333 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 3.8 Mya.
2 occurrences of Pithanotomys macer on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pithanotomys macer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Necromys bonapartei2 sites
- Neophanomys biplicatus2 sites
- Orthomyctera2 sites
- Phtoramys homogenidens2 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus2 sites
- Actenomys priscus1 site
- Alitoxodon vetustus1 site
- Argyrolagus palmeri1 site
- Boa1 site
- Bothrops1 site
- Callopistes1 site
- Cardiomys1 site
- Cavia aperea1 site
- Caviodon australis1 site
- Ceratophrys1 site
- Characidae1 site
- Chelonoidis australis1 site
- Chorobates1 site
- Chorobates villosissimus1 site
- Chunga incerta1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Cyonasua clausa1 site
- Dasypus laevisculptus1 site
- Dendrocygninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pithanotomys macer, 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
2 references- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- The oldest South American Cricetidae (Rodentia) and Mustelidae (Carnivora): Late Miocene faunal turnover in Central Argentina and the Great American Biotic Interchange1
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
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No picture of Pithanotomys macer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pithanotomys macer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pithanotomys macer 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 itPithanotomys through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1888