Elfomys
No picture of Elfomys 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 Elfomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IssiodoromyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Theridomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Elfomys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
15 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Elfomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elfomys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Elfomys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Palaeotherium5 sites
- Anguini4 sites
- Cadurcogekko piveteaui4 sites
- Necrosaurus cayluxi4 sites
- Placosaurus4 sites
- Plesiolacerta lydekkeri4 sites
- Pseudoloris parvulus4 sites
- Pseudoltinomys4 sites
- Amphisbaenidae3 sites
- Anguis3 sites
- Geiseltaliellus lamandini3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Glamys priscus3 sites
- Glamys robiacensis3 sites
- Gracilicerta sindexi3 sites
- Leptadapis magnus3 sites
- Microchoerus erinaceus3 sites
- Plagiolophus3 sites
- Pseudoltinomys phosphoricus3 sites
- Suevosciurus3 sites
- Theridomys3 sites
- Acotherulum pumilum2 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum2 sites
- Anura2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Elfomys, 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
10 references- Les rongeurs de Chéry-Chartreuve et Rocourt-Saint-Martin (est du bassin de Paris; Aisne, France). Leur place parmi les faunes de l'Eocène Moyen d'Europe3
- New small mammal fauna of late Middle Eocene age from a fissure filling at La Verrerie de Roches (Jura, NW Switzerland)2
- Les nouvelles faunes de vertebres anterieurs a la "Grande Coupure" decouvertes dans les phosphorites du Quercy2
- Les rongeurs de l'Oligocène inférieur d'Escamps2
- Middle Eocene rodents from Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (eastern Pyrenees, northern Spain) and biochronological implications1
- Nievesia sossisensis, a new anchomomyin (Adapiformes, Primates) from the early Late Eocene of the southern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain)1
- First record of the genus Microchoerus (Omomyidae, Primates) in the western Iberian Peninsula and its palaeobiogeographic implications1
- A diverse rodent fauna from the middle Bartonian (Eocene) of Les Alleveys, Switzerland: snapshot of the early theridomyid radiation1
- Une faune du niveau d'Egerkingen (MP 14; Bartonien inférieur) dans les phosphorites du Quercy (Sud de la France)1
- Nouvelles faunes de vertebres oligocenes des phosphorites du Quercy1
Each of the 15 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. 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 content0
No picture of Elfomys 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 Elfomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elfomys 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 itIssiodoromyinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartenberger 1971