Copemys
Searched as Democricetodon gregarius aff. bavaricus. The Paleobiology Database treats Copemys as the accepted name.
No picture of Copemys 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 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
5 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.
Copemys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Copemys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,837 taxa- Democricetodon mutilus43 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai36 sites
- Megacricetodon minor35 sites
- Sciuridae34 sites
- Soricidae34 sites
- Heteroxerus32 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus29 sites
- Megacricetodon29 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis28 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis26 sites
- Cupidinimus halli24 sites
- Microdyromys24 sites
- Archaeolaginae23 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi22 sites
- Mylagaulidae22 sites
- Perognathus minutus22 sites
- Perognathus furlongi21 sites
- Sayimys20 sites
- Galerix19 sites
- Tamias ateles19 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis18 sites
- Mustelidae18 sites
- Talpidae18 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis17 sites
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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Copemys 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copemys 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 itNeotominae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fahlbusch 1964