Telicomys

Telicomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Solimões Formation, Brazil, South America.

Telicomys

Andrés Rinderknecht, Washington W. Jones, Ney Araújo, Gustavo Grinspan, and R. Ernesto Blanco · 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
Sits inside
DinomyidaePBDB
Diet
frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Dinomyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dinomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.246 Mya3.8 Mya12.1 Mya2.5 Mya

8 occurrences of Telicomys 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

8 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

Solimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 7.66°S, 72.54°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WSolimões — 10.93°S, 69.76°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WPuerto Belgrano — 38.98°S, 61.82°W

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The named rock units Telicomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Telicomys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Telicomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Telicomys, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Telicomys

Credit
Andrés Rinderknecht, Washington W. Jones, Ney Araújo, Gustavo Grinspan, and R. Ernesto Blanco
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Telicomys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itDinomyidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kraglievich 1926