Orientalomys similis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrientalomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 50 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
5 occurrences of Orientalomys similis 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene79%
- Pleistocene21%
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 Orientalomys similis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orientalomys similis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Orientalomys similis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Mimomys4 sites
- Apodemus3 sites
- Rhagapodemus3 sites
- Cricetulus2 sites
- Dryomys2 sites
- Erinaceus2 sites
- Micromys2 sites
- Pliomys2 sites
- Agriotherium1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Anura1 site
- Arctomeles ferus1 site
- Asio1 site
- Asoriculus1 site
- Barbus1 site
- Beremendia fissidens1 site
- Bythinia1 site
- Camelus1 site
- Canis1 site
- Capoeta sp.1 site
- Carassius sp.1 site
- Castor1 site
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Orientalomys similis, 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 Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece2
- Plio-Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Central Turkey: new faunas and faunal records with comments on their biochronological position based on small mammals1
- Ericek, a new Pliocene vertebrate locality in the Çameli Basin (southwestern Anatolia, Turkey)1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
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
Media content0
No picture of Orientalomys similis 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 Orientalomys similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orientalomys similis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOrientalomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Argyropulo and Pidoplichka 1939)