Microparamys minutus

Microparamys minutus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicroparamysPBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57.5 Mya to 37 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 49 of 50 occurrencesEocene58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya45.9 Mya58 Mya36.5 Mya

50 occurrences of Microparamys minutus 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

50 occurrences

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

8 formations

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WSantiago — 33.22°N, 117.29°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°W

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The named rock units Microparamys minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microparamys minutus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microparamys minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Microparamys minutus, 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

12 references

Each of the 50 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

Picture of Microparamys minutus

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMicroparamys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1937)