Heliscomys hatcheri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliscomysPBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Heliscomys hatcheri 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 Heliscomys hatcheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliscomys hatcheri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heliscomys hatcheri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Palaeolagus haydeni7 sites
- Eumys elegans6 sites
- Ischyromys typus6 sites
- Megalagus turgidus6 sites
- Altasciurus relictus5 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax5 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus5 sites
- Cedromus wardi4 sites
- Diplolophus insolens4 sites
- Heliscomys vetus4 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius4 sites
- Megaheliscomys mcgrewi4 sites
- Palaeolagus burkei4 sites
- Adjidaumo minutus3 sites
- Centetodon marginalis3 sites
- Copedelphys stevensoni3 sites
- Domnina gradata3 sites
- Ecclesimus tenuiceps3 sites
- Herpetotherium valens3 sites
- Hypisodus minimus3 sites
- Leptictidae3 sites
- Leptomeryx3 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi3 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Heliscomys hatcheri, 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
7 references- Geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) from the Orellan (middle Oligocene) of Nebraska,3
- Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska2
- 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
- Small mammals of the Horse Locality Fauna (Latest Chadronian: Eocene), Cypress Hills Formation1
- A latest Chadronian (Late Eocene) mammalian fauna from the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan1
- First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)1
- Stratigraphic occurrence of rodents and lagomorphs in the Orella Member, Brule Formation (Oligocene), northwestern Nebraska1
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
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No picture of Heliscomys hatcheri 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 Heliscomys hatcheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliscomys hatcheri 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.
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What may have been alongside itHeliscomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1935)