Reithrodon auritus

The bunny rat, or hairy-soled conyrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern South America.

Reithrodon auritus

Ezequiel Racker · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
bunny ratPBDB
Sits inside
ReithrodonPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Mass
80 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 3.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 19 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 5 of 19 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences917 ka–733 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences733 ka–550 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences550 ka–367 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences367 ka–183 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences183 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8 Mya11.7 ka5.5 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Reithrodon auritus 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

19 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

5 formations

Lujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WSanta Clara — 37.75°S, 57.42°WTafí del Valle — 26.92°S, 65.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°W

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The named rock units Reithrodon auritus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reithrodon auritus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Reithrodon auritus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Reithrodon auritus, 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

17 references

Each of the 19 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. 5 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 Reithrodon auritus

Credit
Ezequiel Racker
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Reithrodon auritus · ummz:mammals:109233

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itReithrodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1814)