Balantiomys oregonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalantiomysPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Balantiomys oregonensis 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Balantiomys oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Balantiomys oregonensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Balantiomys oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Dromomeryx borealis3 sites
- Spermophilus tephrus3 sites
- Achlyoscapter longirostris2 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus2 sites
- Alluvisorex arcadentes2 sites
- Amphicyon frendens2 sites
- Aphelops2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Copemys pagei2 sites
- Hesperogaulus gazini2 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Mystipterus pacificus2 sites
- Plesiosorex donroosai2 sites
- Protospermophilus malheurensis2 sites
- Pseudotheridomys pagei2 sites
- Scalopoides ripafodiator2 sites
- Tayassuinae2 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus2 sites
- <Korth dipodomyine>1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Balantiomys oregonensis, 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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA1
- A Miocene Mammalian Fauna From South-Eastern Oregon1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Balantiomys oregonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Balantiomys oregonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balantiomys oregonensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itBalantiomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gazin 1932)