Romanocastor
No picture of Romanocastor 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 Romanocastor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CastoridaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- 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 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Romanocastor 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Romanocastor and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Romanocastor and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Castor fiber2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Canis1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Ctenocervus1 site
- Dicerorhinus1 site
- Dolichopithecus ruscinensis1 site
- Equus1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Machairodontinae1 site
- Macrohippus sylvarum1 site
- Mammut borsoni1 site
- Mesopithecus monspessulanus1 site
- Metacervocerus pardinensis1 site
- Moldavimus simionescui1 site
- Ochotona1 site
- Parabos1 site
- Paracamelus1 site
- Parailurus anglicus1 site
- Pliolagomys1 site
- Prospalax1 site
- Protarctos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Romanocastor, 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- Biochronology and evolution of the Early Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Romania1
- Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy in southeastern Transylvania (Romania)1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Romanocastor 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 Romanocastor, 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 itCastoridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Radulesco and Samson 1967