Ansomys cyanotephrus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnsomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Ansomys cyanotephrus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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 Ansomys cyanotephrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ansomys cyanotephrus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ansomys cyanotephrus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Protosciurus mengi3 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus2 sites
- Altasciurus clausulus2 sites
- Altasciurus relictus2 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites2 sites
- Aulolithomys vexilliames2 sites
- Campestrallomys siouxensis2 sites
- Domnina2 sites
- Eumys elegans2 sites
- Heliscomys2 sites
- Heliscomys vetus2 sites
- Hesperopetes blacki2 sites
- Hesperopetes jamesi2 sites
- Leptodontomys douglassi2 sites
- Leptomeryx2 sites
- Paradjidaumo2 sites
- Pelycomys2 sites
- Proscalops2 sites
- Sinclairella dakotensis2 sites
- Willeumys viduus2 sites
- Adjidaumo intermedius1 site
- Adjidaumo lophatus1 site
- Agnotocastor1 site
- Agriochoeridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ansomys cyanotephrus, 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- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Pilgrim Creek Local Fauna, Wyoming: a mixed Eocene and Oligocene assemblage (Duchesnean To Whitneyan)1
- Mammals from the Blue Ash Local Fauna (Late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 4: family Aplodontidae1
- A new species of Ansomys (Rodentia, Aplodontidae) from the late Oligocene (latest Whitney-earliest Arikareean) of South Dakota1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Ansomys cyanotephrus 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 Ansomys cyanotephrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ansomys cyanotephrus 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 itAnsomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 2007