Ardynomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CylindrodontidaePBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Ardynomys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
21 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
10 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation4
- Ergilin Dzo Formation3
- Chadron Formation · White River Group2
- Ulantatal Formation2
- Ulan Gocho Formation2
- Renova Formation1
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The named rock units Ardynomys 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.
Ardynomys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ardynomys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
329 taxa- Desmatolagus6 sites
- Hyaenodon6 sites
- Brontotheriidae5 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens5 sites
- Cricetops dormitor4 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis4 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis4 sites
- Eucricetodon4 sites
- Gobisorex kingae4 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae4 sites
- Herpetotherium valens4 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi4 sites
- Pseudocylindrodon4 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus4 sites
- Copedelphys titanelix3 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius3 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus3 sites
- Heosminthus3 sites
- Karakoromys decessus3 sites
- Ninamys arboraptus3 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus3 sites
- Schizotherium avitum3 sites
- Tsaganomyidae indet.3 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ardynomys, 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
15 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)4
- Ardynomys (Cylindrodontidae, Rodentia) from Nei Mongol, China2
- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area2
- New Creodonts and Rodents from the Ardyn Obo Formation of Mongolia2
- Rodents from the Chadronian (Latest Eocene) Medicine Pole Hills Local Fauna, North Dakota. Part 1. Eutypomyidae, Cylindrodontidae, and Pipestoneomys1
- Lagomorphs from the Yihesubu late Eocene of Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)1
- A late Eocene eomyid rodent from the Zaysan Basin of Kazakhstan1
- A new Ardynomys (Rodentia, Cylindrodontidae) from the Eocene of the Eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia1
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana1
- Extension of Dyspternine Pantolestidae (Mammalia, Cimolesta) in the Early Oligocene of Mongolia1
- Discovery of early medial Oligocene mammalian fauna from Kekeamu, Alxa Left Banner, Nei Mongol1
- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas1
Each of the 21 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. 3 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
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No picture of Ardynomys 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 Ardynomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ardynomys 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 itCylindrodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1925