Myomimus

Myomimus is a genus of rodent in the family Gliridae. It contains the following species:Masked mouse-tailed dormouse Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse

A picture published with the record for Myomimus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GliridaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 63 occurrencesMiocene — about 34 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 63 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences20 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Myomimus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

63 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

12 formations

Lefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EAlfambra — 40.50°N, 2.66°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WTuğlu — 40.42°N, 34.31°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°ELower Manchar — 26.42°N, 67.83°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°EGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.96°EChryssavgi — 40.80°N, 23.08°E

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The named rock units Myomimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myomimus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myomimus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

788 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Myomimus, 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

41 references

Each of the 63 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Myomimus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Myomimus roachi · smf:77286

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGliridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ognev 1924