Paramys copei

Paramys copei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParamysPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 116 occurrencesEocene — about 116 of 116 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 12 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51.1 Mya45.9 Mya56.5 Mya39.2 Mya

116 occurrences of Paramys copei 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

116 occurrences

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

10 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.57°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.51°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.45°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WWiggins — 43.70°N, 108.70°WPass Peak — 42.70°N, 110.10°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Paramys copei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paramys copei and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paramys copei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

526 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Paramys copei, 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

Each of the 116 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

Media content1

Picture of Paramys copei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paramys copei 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 itParamys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loomis 1907