Canaanimys
No picture of Canaanimys 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 Canaanimys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaviomorphaPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Canaanimys 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Canaanimys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Canaanimys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Canaanimys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Caviomorpha3 sites
- Balsayacuy huallagaensis2 sites
- Cachiyacuy kummeli2 sites
- Chachapoyamys kathetos2 sites
- Anura1 site
- Characeae1 site
- Characiformes1 site
- Euungulata1 site
- Leporinus1 site
- Nodosochara1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Pyrotheria1 site
- Raskyella pecki meridionale1 site
- Sebecus1 site
- Serrasalminae indet.1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Trichodactylidae1 site
- Wamradolops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Canaanimys, 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- Restes inédits de rongeurs caviomorphes du Paléogène de la région de Juanjui (Amazonie péruvienne) : systématique, implications macro-évolutives et biostratigraphiques2
- New Palaeogene caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Santa Rosa, Peru: systematics, biochronology, biogeography and early evolutionary trends1
- A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru1
- Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Canaanimys 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 Canaanimys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Canaanimys 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 itCaviomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Antoine et al. 2011