Florentiamys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlorentiamyidaePBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 29.5 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 31.8 Mya to 16.3 Mya.
24 occurrences of Florentiamys 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
24 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
9 formations
- John Day Formation4
- Gering Formation3
- Monroe Creek Formation2
- Sharps Formation1
- Harrison Formation1
- Runningwater Formation1
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The named rock units Florentiamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Florentiamys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Florentiamys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Leidymys8 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi7 sites
- Proscalops secundus7 sites
- Protospermophilus7 sites
- Gripholagomys lavocati6 sites
- Mesoreodon minor6 sites
- Miohippus6 sites
- Archaeocyon leptodus5 sites
- Enhydrocyon pahinsintewakpa5 sites
- Gregorymys formosus5 sites
- Oreodontoides oregonensis5 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi5 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus5 sites
- Promylagaulus riggsi5 sites
- Allomys4 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae4 sites
- Capacikala gradatus4 sites
- Desmatochoerus megalodon4 sites
- Gentilicamelus sternbergi4 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus4 sites
- Hypsiops4 sites
- Leptauchenia decora4 sites
- Leptauchenia major4 sites
- Merycoides4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Florentiamys, 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
12 references- Relationships of the Florentiamyidae (Rodentia, Geomyoidea) based on cranial and dental morphology7
- Revised chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly Members), Oregon, with implications for updated calibration of the Arikareean North American land mammal age4
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas3
- Mammals from the Blue Ash local fauna (late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 2: Families Florentiamyidae and Geomyidae2
- Geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) from the Ridgeview local fauna, early-Early Arikareean (Late Oligocene) of western Nebraska1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska1
- Geomyoid rodents from the early Hemingfordian (Miocene) of Nebraska1
- Monroe Creek (early Miocene) microfossils from the Wounded Knee area, South Dakota1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
- A new subfamily of heteromyid rodents from the Miocene of western United States1
Each of the 24 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 Florentiamys 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 Florentiamys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Florentiamys 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 itFlorentiamyidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1936