Basalomys vandermeuleni
Searched as Birbalomys vandermeuleni. The Paleobiology Database treats Basalomys vandermeuleni as the accepted name.
No picture of Basalomys vandermeuleni 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 Basalomys vandermeuleni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BasalomysPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Basalomys vandermeuleni 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Basalomys vandermeuleni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Basalomys vandermeuleni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Basalomys vandermeuleni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Birbalomys ibrahimshahi4 sites
- Basalomys ijlsti3 sites
- Birbalomys sondaari3 sites
- Birbalomys woodi3 sites
- Chapattimys wilsoni3 sites
- Saykanomys bohlini2 sites
- Adapiformes1 site
- Basalomys lavocati1 site
- Chapattimys debruijni1 site
- Gujaratia pakistanensis1 site
- Gumbatomys asifi1 site
- Kalakocetus aurorae1 site
- Khirtharia inflatus1 site
- Petrokozlovia1 site
- Pycnodus bicresta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Basalomys vandermeuleni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Eocene rodents from new localities in Himachal Pradesh, northwest Himalaya, India: biochrolologic implications2
- A basal representative of Cetacea from the Eocene of India1
- Origin of whales in epicontinental remnant seas: New evidence from the early Eocene of Pakistan1
- Middle Eocene rodents from the Kala Chitta Range (Punjab, Pakistan)1
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 Basalomys vandermeuleni 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 Basalomys vandermeuleni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Basalomys vandermeuleni 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBasalomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hussain et al. 1978)