Graphiurus

H. Osadnik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Sits inside

GliridaePBDB

Diet

herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Late Triassic8%
• Miocene3%
• Pliocene32%
• Pleistocene26%
• Holocene31%

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.

Where Graphiurus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Dendromus10 sites
• Epimys (Aethomys)9 sites
• Mus9 sites
• Dasymys8 sites
• Otomys8 sites
• Praomys8 sites
• Mystromys7 sites
• Rhabdomys7 sites
• Steatomys7 sites
• Elephantulus6 sites
• Eptesicus6 sites
• Tatera6 sites
• Cryptomys hottentotus5 sites
• Elephantulus brachyrhynchus5 sites
• Lemniscomys5 sites
• Malacothrix5 sites
• Myosorex5 sites
• Phacochoerus aethiopicus5 sites
• Rhinolophus5 sites
• Suncus varilla5 sites
• Acomys4 sites
• Alcelaphus buselaphus4 sites
• Crocidura4 sites
• Cryptomys4 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Graphiurus, 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.

• Plio-Pleistocene fossil mammalian microfauna of southern Africa: a preliminary report including descriptions of two new fossil muroid genera (Mammalia: Rodentia)Pocock, 1987 · Palaeontologica Africana2
• The Structure and Dynamics of a West African SavannaMenaut and Cesar, 1982 · Ecological Studies · journal article2
• The Makapansgat australopithecine environmentRayner et al., 1993 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article1
• Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern KenyaFrostick and Reid, 1986 · Geological Society of America Special Publication1
• Structure of Nylsrley SavannaHuntley and Walker, 1982 · Ecology of Tropical Savannas, Huntley B.J.&B.H. Walker, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 19821
• The Hunters of the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave TaphonomyBrain, 1981 · University of Chicago Press, Chicago1
• The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South AfricaKlein, 1977 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• The Pliocene fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South AfricaHendey, 1976 · Annals of the South African Museum · journal article1
• The Prehistory of Eastern ZambiaPhillipson, 1976 · Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa1
• Some evidence of chronology and paleoecology of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai from the fossil BovidaeVrba, 1975 · Nature1
• Die Fische der bituminösen Schiefer von Raibl in KärnthenKner, 1866 · Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften · journal article1

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.

What may have been alongside itGliridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smuts 1832