Eomys antiquus
No picture of Eomys antiquus 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 Eomys antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Eomys
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Eomys antiquus 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
13 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Calcaires de Vacheres Formation2
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group1
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The named rock units Eomys antiquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eomys antiquus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Eomys antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Blainvillimys helmeri4 sites
- Percymygale vauclusensis4 sites
- Schizogliravus micio4 sites
- Tetracus nanus4 sites
- Anguini3 sites
- Bransatoglis3 sites
- Butseloglis tenuis3 sites
- Cryptotopos communis3 sites
- Eucricetodon huberi3 sites
- Glamys priscus3 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus3 sites
- Iberomeryx minor3 sites
- Lophallomys atavus3 sites
- Nimravus intermedius3 sites
- Paratheridomys margaritae3 sites
- Percymygale minor3 sites
- Pseudocricetodon montalbanensis3 sites
- Pseudoltinomys gaillardi3 sites
- Pseudoltinomys major3 sites
- Steneofiber3 sites
- Theridomys varians3 sites
- Amphicynodon typicus2 sites
- Atavocricetodon2 sites
- Atavocricetodon atavus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Eomys antiquus, 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
5 references- New data about the diversity of Early Oligocene eomyids (Mammalia, Rodentia) in Western Europe8
- Eomyidae (Rodentia) de l'Oligocene d'Europe Occidentale. [Eomyidae (Rodentia) from the Oligocene of Western Europe.]2
- Les vertébrés terrestres de l’Oligocène inférieur de Belgique (Formation de Borgloon, MP 21): inventaire et interprétation des données actuelles1
- Les grands mammifères chefs de file de l'immigration oligocène et le problème de la limite Eocene-Oligocene en Europe.1
- Nouveaux gisements a micromammiferes et mollusques continentaux dans l'Oligocene moyen du synclinal d'Apt (Vaucluse, sud-est de la France)1
Each of the 13 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 Eomys antiquus 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 Eomys antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eomys antiquus 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 itEomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aymard 1853