Heliscomys medius
No picture of Heliscomys medius 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 medius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 29.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heliscomys medius 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Heliscomys medius and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heliscomys medius and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Agnotocastor1 site
- Allomys1 site
- Altasciurus clausulus1 site
- Ansomys cyanotephrus1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Campestrallomys siouxensis1 site
- Cedromus wilsoni1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Disallomys intermedius1 site
- Disallomys robustus1 site
- Domnina1 site
- Douglassciurus sapphirus1 site
- Downsimus1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Eumys brachyodus1 site
- Eumys parvidens1 site
- Eutypomys wilsoni1 site
- Florentiamys kingi1 site
- Geolabis1 site
- Geomyidae1 site
- Geringia copiosus1 site
- Gregorymys montanus1 site
- Haplomys1 site
- Hesperopetes blacki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heliscomys medius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Heliscomys medius 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 medius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliscomys medius 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.
Keep going
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. Korth 2007