Hapalomys
Hapalomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Southeast Asia. It is the only member of the tribe Hapalomyini. It contains the following species:Delacour's marmoset rat Marmoset rat Suntsov's marmoset rat, a Vietnamese endemic recently described from Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam

Alexei V. Abramov · CC BY 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- marmoset ratPBDB
- Sits inside
- MuridaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Hapalomys on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Hapalomys and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hapalomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Felis4 sites
- Hystrix4 sites
- Leopoldamys4 sites
- Niviventer4 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis4 sites
- Sciurotamias4 sites
- Soriculus4 sites
- Anourosorex3 sites
- Arctonyx collaris3 sites
- Belomys3 sites
- Chiropodomys3 sites
- Cuon3 sites
- Hipposideros3 sites
- Macaca3 sites
- Mus3 sites
- Myotis3 sites
- Petaurista3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
- Sus3 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca2 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Atherurus macrourus2 sites
- Bos (Bibos)2 sites
- Capricornis sumatraensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hapalomys, 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- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China2
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China1
- A preliminary study of the early Pleistocene deposits and the mammalian fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fancheng, Anhui, China1
Each of the 5 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 Hapalomys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alexei V. Abramov
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hapalomys 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hapalomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blyth 1859