Meteamys alpani
No picture of Meteamys alpani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Meteamys alpani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeteamysPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 22.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meteamys alpani 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
3 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.
Meteamys alpani and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Meteamys alpani and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Muhsinia steffensi3 sites
- Spanocricetodon3 sites
- Cricetodon2 sites
- Eumyarion2 sites
- Glirulus2 sites
- Microdyromys2 sites
- Allactaginae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Enginia djanpolati1 site
- Falseryx1 site
- Galerix saratji1 site
- Heterosminthus firmus1 site
- Melissiodon1 site
- Myoxus (Glis)1 site
- Neurogymnurus1 site
- Ophisaurus1 site
- Palaeosciurus1 site
- Paraglirulus1 site
- Platyspondylia1 site
- Soricidae1 site
- Tropidophiidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meteamys alpani, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The Oligocene rodent record of Anatolia: a review2
- A new association of small mammals from the lowermost Lower Miocene of Central Anatolia.1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meteamys alpani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Meteamys alpani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meteamys alpani 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 itMeteamys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Bruijn et al. 1992