Miosciurus ballovianus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiosciurusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Miosciurus ballovianus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Miosciurus ballovianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miosciurus ballovianus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Miosciurus ballovianus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Eporeodon occidentalis3 sites
- Protosciurus mengi3 sites
- Agriochoerus guyotianus2 sites
- Daphoenus2 sites
- Herpetotherium merriami2 sites
- Palaeocastor fossor2 sites
- Palaeocastor peninsulatus2 sites
- Paroreodon parvus2 sites
- Proheteromys thorpei2 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus2 sites
- Protosciurus rachelae2 sites
- Allomys1 site
- Alwoodia magna1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Apeomys whistleri1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Archaeolagus ennisianus1 site
- Archaeotherium1 site
- Campestrallomys1 site
- Capacikala1 site
- Capacikala gradatus1 site
- Copedelphys1 site
- Cormocyon copei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Miosciurus ballovianus, 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
2 references- New rodent material from the John Day Formation (Arikareean, Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene) of Oregon4
- John Day Basin paleontology field trip guide and road log: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Miosciurus ballovianus 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 Miosciurus ballovianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miosciurus ballovianus 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 itMiosciurus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1881)