Megapeomys bobwilsoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegapeomysPBDB
- 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 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Megapeomys bobwilsoni 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
1 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.
Megapeomys bobwilsoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megapeomys bobwilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anchitheriinae1 site
- Ansomys nevadensis1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Bassaricyonoides stewartae1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Bouromeryx submilleri1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) wilsoni1 site
- Desmathyus pinensis1 site
- Hesperhys vagrans1 site
- Limnoecus compressus1 site
- Liodontia dailyi1 site
- Marshochoerus socialis1 site
- Merychyus1 site
- Miospermophilus1 site
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis1 site
- Nemomeryx vyaensis1 site
- Paracynarctus kelloggi1 site
- Parahippus pawniensis1 site
- Parapliohippus carrizoensis1 site
- Problastomeryx primus1 site
- Protomarctus optatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Megapeomys bobwilsoni, 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 content1

Picture of Megapeomys bobwilsoni
- 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 Megapeomys bobwilsoni 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 itMegapeomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morea and Korth 2002