Ischyromys veterior

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IschyromysPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Ischyromys veterior on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
29 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Ischyromys veterior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ischyromys veterior and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ischyromys veterior and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Palaeolagus temnodon21 sites
- Brontotheriidae19 sites
- Megalagus brachyodon17 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>14 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius14 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus11 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus10 sites
- Equidae10 sites
- Leptomeryx10 sites
- Leptomeryx speciosus10 sites
- Prosciurus vetustus10 sites
- Trigenicus profectus10 sites
- Centetodon chadronensis9 sites
- Poebrotherium9 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon8 sites
- Cylindrodon8 sites
- Douglassciurus jeffersoni8 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax8 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii8 sites
- Micropternodus borealis8 sites
- Chadrolagus emryi7 sites
- Didelphidae7 sites
- Dinictis7 sites
- Eotylopus reedi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Ischyromys veterior, 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
15 references- Mammalian Range Zones in the Chadronian White River Formation at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming5
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals4
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana4
- Correlation of the early Oligocene (Chadronian) in northwestern Nebraska4
- Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene rocks and vertebrate fossils at the Emerald Lake locality, 3 miles south of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming2
- Additions to the mammalian fauna of the late Eocene (Chadronian) Florissant Formation, central Colorado1
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Pilgrim Creek Local Fauna, Wyoming: a mixed Eocene and Oligocene assemblage (Duchesnean To Whitneyan)1
- Rodents from the Chadronian (latest Eocene) Medicine Pole Hills local fauna, North Dakota. Part 2. Ischyromidae, Sciuravidae, Aplodontidae, Sciuridae and Heliscomyidae1
- Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming1
- Personal communication regarding Tertiary faunal lists, Jefferson County, Montana1
- Oligocene calibration of the magnetic polarity time scale1
- Tertiary geology of the Beaver Rim area, Fremont and Natrona Counties, Wyoming1
Each of the 29 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Ischyromys veterior
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ischyromys veterior 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 itIschyromys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1903)