Microscleromys

No picture of Microscleromys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microscleromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChinchilloideaPBDB
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 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 10 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiocene14–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14.32 Mya9.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Microscleromys 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

12 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

2 formations

Villavieja — 3.32°N, 75.13°WVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.14°WVillavieja — 3.28°N, 75.17°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Microscleromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Microscleromys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Microscleromys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Microscleromys, 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

3 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Microscleromys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microscleromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itChinchilloidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walton 1990