Eumys brachyodus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EumysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Eumys brachyodus 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
10 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
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The named rock units Eumys brachyodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eumys brachyodus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Eumys brachyodus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Palaeolagus burkei5 sites
- Leptauchenia decora4 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi4 sites
- Proscalops tertius4 sites
- Daphoenus3 sites
- Domnina gradata3 sites
- Eomyidae3 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax3 sites
- Hesperocyon3 sites
- Hyracodon leidyanus3 sites
- Leidymys blacki3 sites
- Leptomeryx3 sites
- Megalagus turgidus3 sites
- Palaeolagus hypsodus3 sites
- Palaeolagus intermedius3 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus3 sites
- Scottimus3 sites
- Agnotocastor praetereadens2 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae2 sites
- Castoridae2 sites
- Dinictis2 sites
- Disallomys intermedius2 sites
- Disallomys robustus2 sites
- Elomeryx2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eumys brachyodus, 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
9 references- Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota2
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Whitneyan (Middle Oligocene) Cedar Pass Fauna of South Dakota1
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan1
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana1
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the eastern portion of the Wildcat Ridge, western Nebraska1
- New Oligocene rodents from western North America1
- New rodents from the lower Miocene Gering Formation of western Nebraska1
- Rodents and lagomorphs from the Miocene Fort Logan and Deep River Formation of Montana1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Eumys brachyodus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eumys brachyodus 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.
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What may have been alongside itEumys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1937