Parallomys americanus
No picture of Parallomys americanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parallomys americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParallomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 24.7 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parallomys americanus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
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The named rock units Parallomys americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parallomys americanus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parallomys americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Archaeolagus primigenius3 sites
- Gripholagomys lavocati3 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi3 sites
- Hitonkala macdonaldtau3 sites
- Nototamias quadratus3 sites
- Paciculus nebraskensis3 sites
- Promylagaulus riggsi3 sites
- Proscalops secundus3 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus3 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni2 sites
- Arikareeomys skinneri2 sites
- Centetodon divaricatus2 sites
- Entoptychus grandiplanus2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Leidymys cerasus2 sites
- Palaeocastor fossor2 sites
- Parvericius voorhiesi2 sites
- Plesiosminthus clivosus2 sites
- Protosciurus2 sites
- Pseudotheridomys2 sites
- Sanctimus stuartae2 sites
- Alwoodia1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphibia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parallomys americanus, 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- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska2
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
Each of the 3 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 Parallomys americanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parallomys americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parallomys americanus 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 itParallomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1992