Paramys wyomingensis
No picture of Paramys wyomingensis 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 Paramys wyomingensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Paramys wyomingensis 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Paramys wyomingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paramys wyomingensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paramys wyomingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Microsyops elegans6 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus6 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus5 sites
- Notharctus5 sites
- Omomys carteri5 sites
- Paramyidae5 sites
- Washakius insignis5 sites
- Microparamys minutus4 sites
- Orohippus pumilus4 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis4 sites
- Smilodectes gracilis4 sites
- Anaptomorphus westi3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus3 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti3 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium3 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus3 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus3 sites
- Miacidae3 sites
- Microparamys3 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum3 sites
- Orohippus3 sites
- Paramys delicatior3 sites
- Paramys delicatus3 sites
- Pseudotomus robustus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Paramys wyomingensis, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals9
- The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Paramys wyomingensis 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 Paramys wyomingensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paramys wyomingensis 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.
Keep going
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. (Wood 1959)