Copemys

Copemys

President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
NeotominaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 4.16 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 428 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 421 of 428 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 428 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 428 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 13 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 24 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 56 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 58 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 55 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 50 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 31 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 23 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 16 occurrences9.9–9.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences9.0–8.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.2–6.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–5.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.4–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–882 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16.9 Mya4.16 Mya27.8 Mya882 ka

428 occurrences of Copemys 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

428 occurrences

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

62 formations

Barstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WLower Manchar — 26.42°N, 67.83°EValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.61°N, 11.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°EDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 31.05°N, 93.21°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EXiacaowan — 33.18°N, 118.22°EChitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°EAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WAlkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WEsmeralda — 37.96°N, 118.03°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WKeramaria — 38.31°N, 26.13°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°EFort Randall — 43.53°N, 99.13°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°WDeer Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WAlfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WChâteauredon — 44.02°N, 6.22°E

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The named rock units Copemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 187 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Copemys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Copemys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,837 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 288 sites for Copemys, and this reads 240 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

122 references

Each of the 428 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. 110 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Copemys

Source
GBIF
Credit
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Copemys lindsayi · TxVP:MWSU:43645-12870

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1936