Epeiromys
No picture of Epeiromys 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 Epeiromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RodentiaPBDB
- 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 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 29.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Epeiromys 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Epeiromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epeiromys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Epeiromys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Altasciurus relictus3 sites
- Heliscomys hatcheri3 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius3 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni3 sites
- Centetodon marginalis2 sites
- Copedelphys stevensoni2 sites
- Diplolophus insolens2 sites
- Douglassciurus bjorki2 sites
- Eumys elegans2 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax2 sites
- Hypisodus minimus2 sites
- Ischyromys typus2 sites
- Megaheliscomys mcgrewi2 sites
- Nanodelphys huntii2 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus2 sites
- Paradjidaumo validus2 sites
- Proscalops tertius2 sites
- Scottimus lophatus2 sites
- Stibarus obtusilobus2 sites
- Willeumys viduus2 sites
- Wilsoneumys planidens2 sites
- Adjidaumo intermedius1 site
- Adjidaumo minimus1 site
- Adjidaumo minutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Epeiromys, 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
4 references- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Whitneyan (Middle Oligocene) Cedar Pass Fauna of South Dakota1
- First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)1
- Aplodontid Rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) Brule Formation, Nebraska1
Each of the 4 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 Epeiromys 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 Epeiromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epeiromys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRodentia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1989