Mojavemys lophatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MojavemysPBDB
- 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 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Mojavemys lophatus 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
19 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mojavemys lophatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mojavemys lophatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mojavemys lophatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Cupidinimus lindsayi15 sites
- Cupidinimus halli13 sites
- Copemys longidens11 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis11 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis10 sites
- Perognathus furlongi10 sites
- Perognathus minutus9 sites
- Copemys barstowensis6 sites
- Miospermophilus6 sites
- Paradomnina relictus6 sites
- Tamias ateles6 sites
- Copemys russelli5 sites
- Copemys tenuis5 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Copemys pagei3 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini3 sites
- Scaphohippus intermontanus3 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Copemys esmeraldensis2 sites
- Cynarctus galushai2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Heliscomys (Syphyriomys) subtilis2 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mojavemys lophatus, 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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals16
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA2
- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California1
Each of the 19 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 Mojavemys lophatus 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 Mojavemys lophatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mojavemys lophatus 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 itMojavemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindsay 1972)