Mytonomys coloradensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MytonomysPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Mytonomys coloradensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
14 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Mytonomys coloradensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mytonomys coloradensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mytonomys coloradensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Esthonyx bisulcatus9 sites
- Paramys excavatus9 sites
- Didymictis8 sites
- Palaeictops bicuspis8 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani8 sites
- Cantius abditus7 sites
- Coryphodon7 sites
- Hyopsodus7 sites
- Paramys copei7 sites
- Absarokius abbotti6 sites
- Diacodexis6 sites
- Heptodon calciculus6 sites
- Sifrhippus grangeri6 sites
- Viverravus6 sites
- Vulpavus australis6 sites
- Absarokius metoecus5 sites
- Anacodon ursidens5 sites
- Arenahippus aemulor5 sites
- Bunophorus5 sites
- Hyopsodus powellianus5 sites
- Microsyopidae5 sites
- Phenacolemurinae5 sites
- Sifrhippus index5 sites
- Uintacyon asodes5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mytonomys coloradensis, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals13
- The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming1
Each of the 14 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 Mytonomys coloradensis 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 Mytonomys coloradensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mytonomys coloradensis 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 itMytonomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1962)