Baranomys
Baranomys is an extinct genus of rodent from the Baranomyinae subfamily of Cricetidae family. It lived in the Pliocene epoch, and its fossils have been found in Canada, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. It was an ancestor to modern Arvicolinae. The species was described for the first time by Theodor Kormos in 1933.
M.Czarnocka · Public Domain · 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
- CricetidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 610 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 4.16 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
7 occurrences of Baranomys 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene78%
- Pleistocene22%
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.
Baranomys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Baranomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Mimomys6 sites
- Germanomys5 sites
- Pliopetaurista5 sites
- Prospalax5 sites
- Anura4 sites
- Apodemus4 sites
- Blarinoides mariae4 sites
- Glis minor4 sites
- Petenyia hungarica4 sites
- Amphidyromys pusillus3 sites
- Beremendia fissidens3 sites
- Muscardinus3 sites
- Ophisaurus3 sites
- Osteichthyes3 sites
- Petenyiella3 sites
- Pliopetes3 sites
- Sminthozapus3 sites
- Anancus arvernensis2 sites
- Blackia2 sites
- Capreolus2 sites
- Castor fiber2 sites
- Cervidae2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Cricetinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Baranomys, 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- Neues aus dem Villafranchium von Hajnacka bei Filakovo (Slowakei, cssr)2
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary2
- The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main; Germany.1
- Gundersheim-Findling, a Ruscinian rodent fauna of Asian affinities from Germany.1
- Prosomys insuliferus (Kowalski 1958) (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Poland and the European part of the USSR1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Baranomys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- M.Czarnocka
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Baranomys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Baranomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kormos 1933