Eomyodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EomyidaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 22.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Eomyodon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
- Lower Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group3
- Enspel Formation2
- Wulanbulage Formation1
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The named rock units Eomyodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eomyodon and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Eomyodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Amphiperatherium exile6 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus6 sites
- Pseudocricetodon thaleri6 sites
- Pseudotheridomys6 sites
- Adelomyarion vireti5 sites
- Bransatoglis fugax5 sites
- Blackia miocaenica4 sites
- Eucricetodon longidens4 sites
- Heteroxerus4 sites
- Microdyromys monspeliensis4 sites
- Rhizospalax4 sites
- Rhodanomys transiens4 sites
- Amphilagus3 sites
- Bransatoglis concavidens3 sites
- Dimyloides3 sites
- Dimyloides stehlini3 sites
- Glirudinus eggingensis3 sites
- Paratalpa micheli3 sites
- Pelobates3 sites
- Percymygale minor3 sites
- Peridyromys3 sites
- Peridyromys murinus3 sites
- Piezodus3 sites
- Rhodanomys hugueneyae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eomyodon, 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
6 references- Beiträge zur Biostratigraphie der Unteren Süßwasser-Molasse Süddeutschlands - Rodentia und Lagomorpha (Mammalia) aus den Fundstellen der Ulmer Gegend.4
- Late Oligocene ambient temperatures reconstructed by stable isotope analysis of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate fossils of Enspel, Germany2
- New data about the diversity of Early Oligocene eomyids (Mammalia, Rodentia) in Western Europe2
- Latest Oligocene Didelphimorpha, Lipotyphla, Rodentia and Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from Oberleichtersbach, Rhön Mountains, Germany2
- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of continental Tertiary vertebrate faunas in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany)1
- Eomyidae (Rodentia: Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Eomyodon 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 Eomyodon, 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 itEomyidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engesser 1987