Paraethomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MuridaePBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
47 occurrences of Paraethomys on record. 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
47 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene28%
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
9 formations
- facies à Congeria Formation7
- Esbarrondadoiro Formation3
- C1/LR Formation1
- Alfambra Formation1
- Venta del Moro-Villatoya Formation1
- Alcala Formation1
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The named rock units Paraethomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
485 taxa- Prolagus18 sites
- Meriones12 sites
- Apodemus gudrunae11 sites
- Chiroptera10 sites
- Gerbillus10 sites
- Anguinae9 sites
- Eliomys9 sites
- Muscardinus vireti9 sites
- Centralomys benericettii8 sites
- Latonia8 sites
- Parasorex ibericus8 sites
- Passeriformes8 sites
- Praomys8 sites
- Stephanomys8 sites
- Strigidae8 sites
- Agriolimacidae7 sites
- Apodemus atavus7 sites
- Cochlostoma esuanum7 sites
- Dreissena7 sites
- Ellobius7 sites
- Equus7 sites
- Euprox7 sites
- Glis minor7 sites
- Lacerta7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Paraethomys, 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
25 references- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications7
- Decouverte en Afrique du Nord de restes humains du Paleolithique inferieur6
- Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco4
- Depósito messianos do sul de Portugal, mamíferos (incluindo Rodentia e Lagomorpha) e idades K-Ar*3
- Stratigraphie et paleontologie du Miocene superieur d'Arenas del Rey, Bassin de Grenade (Andalousie, Espagne)3
- Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocene des Pyrenees-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938)2
- Description des rongeurs Pliocenes de la faune du Mont-Helene (Pyrenees-Orientales, France), nouveau jalon entre les faunes de Perpignan (Serrat-d'en-Vacquer) et de Sete2
- Mimomys occitanus de Villalba Alta et Arquillo 3 (Espagne)2
- Les rongeurs du miocene moyen et superieur du Maghreb2
- Canis othmanii sp. nov. (Carnivora, Canidae) from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Wadi Sarrat (Tunisia)1
- Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics1
- The upper Messinian assemblages of fossil vertebrate remains of Verduno (NW Italy): Another brick for a latest Miocene bridge acress the Mediterranean1
Each of the 47 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. 13 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
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No picture of Paraethomys 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 Paraethomys, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petter 1968