Mictomys vetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MictomysPBDB
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 400 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 210 ka.

Pliocene — about 14 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 25 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8 Mya – 1.4 Mya5.2 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Mictomys vetus on record. 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

25 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

4 formations

Glenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 115.70°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°W

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The named rock units Mictomys vetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Mictomys vetus, 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

7 references

Each of the 25 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 Mictomys vetus 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 Mictomys vetus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1933)