Mioheteromys arcarius
No picture of Mioheteromys arcarius 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 Mioheteromys arcarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MioheteromysPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mioheteromys arcarius 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Mioheteromys arcarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mioheteromys arcarius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mioheteromys arcarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Charina prebottae2 sites
- Copemys longidens2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni2 sites
- Metechinus fergusoni2 sites
- Parvericius montanus2 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum2 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi2 sites
- Scalopoides2 sites
- Spermophilus2 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus1 site
- Adeloblarina berklandi1 site
- Ambystoma minshalli1 site
- Ameiseophis robinsoni1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Balantiomys borealis1 site
- Bassariscus antiquus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Bufo valentinensis1 site
- Colubrinae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cupidinimus kleinfelderi1 site
- Cupidinimus smaragdinus1 site
- Dakotaophis greeni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mioheteromys arcarius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Mioheteromys arcarius 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 Mioheteromys arcarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mioheteromys arcarius 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 itMioheteromys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Korth 1996)