Prodolichotis pridiana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProdolichotisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Caviidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Caviidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.8 Mya and 11 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Prodolichotis pridiana 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
14 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
1 formation
- Villavieja Formation · Honda Group13
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The named rock units Prodolichotis pridiana 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.
Prodolichotis pridiana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Prodolichotis pridiana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Drytomomys aequatorialis2 sites
- Scleromys schurmanni2 sites
- Alligatoroidea1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Caviidae1 site
- Colombophis portai1 site
- Colossoma macropomum1 site
- Doradidae1 site
- Eodolichotis maddeni1 site
- Granastrapotherium snorki1 site
- Gryposuchus colombianus1 site
- Hondadelphys fieldsi1 site
- Lepidosiren paradoxa1 site
- Magdalenabradys confusum1 site
- Miocochilius1 site
- Miocochilius anomopodus1 site
- Mourasuchus1 site
- Neodolodus colombianus1 site
- Neoepiblema1 site
- Neonematherium flabellatum1 site
- Neoreomys huilensis1 site
- Paleosuchus1 site
- Pericotoxodon platignathus1 site
- Platanistinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prodolichotis pridiana, 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
4 references- Rodents of the La Venta Fauna, Miocene, Colombia: Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmentl implications8
- Hystricomorph rodents from the late Miocene of Colombia, South America3
- Rodents2
- Life in the proto-Amazonia: middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia)1
Each of the 14 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 Prodolichotis pridiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Prodolichotis pridiana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProdolichotis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fields 1957