Copemys barstowensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopemysPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Copemys barstowensis 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
10 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Copemys barstowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copemys barstowensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Copemys barstowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Copemys longidens8 sites
- Cupidinimus halli8 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi8 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis7 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis7 sites
- Tamias ateles7 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus6 sites
- Perognathus furlongi6 sites
- Perognathus minutus6 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Copemys russelli4 sites
- Copemys tenuis4 sites
- Paradomnina relictus4 sites
- Copemys pagei3 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini3 sites
- Miospermophilus3 sites
- Monosaulax pansus2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius2 sites
- Phelosaccomys2 sites
- Procyonidae2 sites
- Scaphohippus intermontanus2 sites
- <Korth dipodomyine>1 site
- Achlyoscapter longirostris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Copemys barstowensis, 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
2 references- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California9
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA1
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Copemys barstowensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Copemys barstowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCopemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindsay 1972