Cupidinimus

Cupidinimus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteromyidaePBDB
Diet
granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.1 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 123 occurrencesMiocene — about 120 of 123 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 123 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 123 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 19 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 19 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.5–7.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.0–6.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18.5 Mya4.7 Mya23.6 Mya900 ka

123 occurrences of Cupidinimus 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

123 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

23 formations

Barstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.11°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.73°WVaqueros — 33.72°N, 117.73°WMadison Valley — 45.93°N, 111.29°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAvawatz — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCajon Valley Beds — 34.80°N, 117.00°WTemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSheep Creek — 42.15°N, 103.70°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WSalt Lake — 41.50°N, 112.90°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WKramer Beds — 35.05°N, 117.69°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WWildcat Hills Beds — 41.70°N, 103.67°W

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The named rock units Cupidinimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupidinimus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cupidinimus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

673 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Cupidinimus, 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

31 references

Each of the 123 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Cupidinimus

Source
GBIF
Credit
U.C.PARTY
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cupidinimus 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1935