Kanisamys
No picture of Kanisamys 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 Kanisamys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
17 occurrences of Kanisamys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
17 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
- Lower Manchar Formation11
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Kanisamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kanisamys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Kanisamys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Copemys11 sites
- Sayimys11 sites
- Myocricetodon10 sites
- Prokanisamys9 sites
- Sciuridae9 sites
- Sindemys aguilari8 sites
- Galerix wesselsae7 sites
- Mellalomys7 sites
- Punjabemys6 sites
- Diatomys5 sites
- Kochalia5 sites
- Antemus4 sites
- Galerix rutlandae4 sites
- Brachypotherium3 sites
- Murinae3 sites
- Siluridae3 sites
- Spanocricetodon3 sites
- Amphicyon2 sites
- Aprotodon fatehjangense2 sites
- Chilotherium2 sites
- Choerolophodon corrugatus2 sites
- Conohyus sindiensis2 sites
- Crocodylus2 sites
- Dorcatherium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Kanisamys, 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
6 references- Miocene rodent evolution and migration. Muroidea from Pakistan, Turkey and Northern Africa11
- Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan)2
- Siwalik mammals of the Jammu Sub-Himalaya, India: an appraisal of their diversity and habitats.1
- First fossil marsupial from South Asia1
- Rodents of the Miocene Daud Khel local fauna, Minanwali District, Pakistan; Part 1: Sciuridae, Gliridae, Ctenodactylidae, and Rhizomyidae1
- A middle Siwalik fish fauna from Ladhyani (Haritalyangar), Himachal Pradesh1
Each of the 17 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Kanisamys indicus · wihg:wimf/a:4689
No picture of Kanisamys 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 Kanisamys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCricetidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1937