Mimomys virginianus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimomysPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mimomys virginianus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Mimomys virginianus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mimomys virginianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus5 sites
- Brachylagus coloradoensis3 sites
- Lasiopodomys deceitensis3 sites
- Lemmiscus curtatus3 sites
- Microtus3 sites
- Microtus paroperarius3 sites
- Ochotona3 sites
- Atopomys texensis2 sites
- Canis latrans2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Microtus meadensis2 sites
- Microtus pennsylvanicus2 sites
- Mictomys meltoni2 sites
- Mustela nigripes2 sites
- Ondatra2 sites
- Ondatra annectens2 sites
- Phenacomys (Paraphenacomys) gryci2 sites
- Phenacomys brachyodus2 sites
- Soricidae2 sites
- Spermophilus2 sites
- Synaptomys cooperi2 sites
- Tamiasciurus hudsonicus2 sites
- Urocitellus elegans2 sites
- Amblystoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mimomys virginianus, 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
6 references- The microtine rodents from the Pit locality in Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado1
- Paleontology and historic field trip of the John Guilday Cave Preserve (Trout Rock)1
- Fossils, Diet, and Conservation of Black-Footed Ferrets (Mustela nigripes)1
- The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main; Germany.1
- Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene ecologic changes in the Arctic Ocean borderland1
- The microtine rodents of the Cheetah Room fauna, Hamilton Cave, West Virginia, and the spontaneous origin of Synaptomys1
Each of the 6 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 Mimomys virginianus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Mimomys virginianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mimomys virginianus 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.
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What may have been alongside itMimomys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repenning and Grady 1988