Onychomys bensoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Onychomys
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Onychomys bensoni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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 Onychomys bensoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onychomys bensoni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Onychomys bensoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Bensonomys arizonae4 sites
- Sigmodon minor4 sites
- Baiomys minimus3 sites
- Camelops3 sites
- Geomys (Nerterogeomys) minor3 sites
- Nannippus peninsulatus3 sites
- Antilocapridae2 sites
- Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni2 sites
- Cratogeomys bensoni2 sites
- Dipodomys minor2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Leporidae2 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) fossilis2 sites
- Perognathinae2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Prodipodomys idahoensis2 sites
- Aluralagus1 site
- Aluralagus bensonensis1 site
- Ambystoma tigrinum1 site
- Antrozous pallidus1 site
- Baiomys brachygnathus1 site
- Borophagus1 site
- Bufo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Onychomys bensoni, 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
4 references- The Verde Local Fauna: Small vertebrate fossils from the Verde Formation, Arizona1
- Mammals of the Wolf Ranch Local Fauna, Pliocene of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona1
- Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy of Pliocene-Pleistocene Terrestrial Deposits and Vertebrate Faunas, San Pedro Valley, Arizona1
- The Late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas from the San Pedro Valley, Ariz1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Onychomys bensoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Onychomys bensoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOnychomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gidley 1922