Copemys pisinnus
No picture of Copemys pisinnus 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 Copemys pisinnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Copemys pisinnus 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
3 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
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Ogallala Formation1
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The named rock units Copemys pisinnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copemys pisinnus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Copemys pisinnus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Domninoides mimicus3 sites
- Phelosaccomys hibbardi3 sites
- Acris2 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Bufo pliocompactilis2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Cupidinimus prattensis2 sites
- Elaphe2 sites
- Epicyon saevus2 sites
- Hesperolagomys galbreathi2 sites
- Hyla2 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Mystipterus2 sites
- Nerodia hillmani2 sites
- Nothodipoides planus2 sites
- Rana2 sites
- Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) cyanocittus2 sites
- Teleoceras major2 sites
- Thamnophis2 sites
- Tregobatrachus2 sites
- Tregomys shotwelli2 sites
- Tregophis brevirachis2 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Copemys pisinnus, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Systematics and faunal analysis of a Lower Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from Trego County, Kansas1
Each of the 3 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 pisinnus 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 Copemys pisinnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copemys pisinnus 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 itCopemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1968)