Protacaremys prior
No picture of Protacaremys prior 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 Protacaremys prior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtacaremysPBDB
- 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 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 21 Mya and 17.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protacaremys prior 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
2 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
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The named rock units Protacaremys prior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protacaremys prior and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protacaremys prior and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acaremys preminutus1 site
- Australoprocta fleaglei1 site
- Caviocricetus lucasi1 site
- Cephalomyopsis1 site
- Chelonoidis gringorum1 site
- Chubutomys leucoreios1 site
- Dudumus ruigomezi1 site
- Eosteiromys1 site
- Eosteiromys homogenidens1 site
- Eoviscaccia australis1 site
- Galileomys antelucanus1 site
- Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus1 site
- Hegetotherium novum1 site
- Hypsosteiromys axiculus1 site
- Luantus1 site
- Luantus minor1 site
- Palaeospheniscus1 site
- Prospaniomys1 site
- Prospaniomys priscus1 site
- Protadelphomys latus1 site
- Soriamys gaimanensis1 site
- Willidewu esteparius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protacaremys prior, 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- Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications1
- Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art1
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. 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
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No picture of Protacaremys prior 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 Protacaremys prior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protacaremys prior 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 itProtacaremys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1902