Pediomyidae

Pediomyidae

Frank E. Beddard · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PediomyoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 208 of 211 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 211 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 211 occurrencesEocene95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 5 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 34 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 43 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 43 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 43 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya56 Mya94.8 Mya47.2 Mya

211 occurrences of Pediomyidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

211 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

30 formations

Hell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.65°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 47.73°N, 106.50°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 106.58°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.70°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WDinosaur Park — 49.96°N, 110.27°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WFox Hills — 45.13°N, 101.80°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WLaramie — 40.95°N, 104.92°WLaramie — 40.80°N, 104.65°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WSt. Mary River — 48.90°N, 112.80°WSt. Mary River — 48.43°N, 112.83°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WNorth Horn — 39.17°N, 111.27°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.67°N, 112.91°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WEagle — 48.97°N, 111.82°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WEl Gallo — 30.20°N, 115.79°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.76°WPrince Creek — 70.02°N, 151.59°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WMuñani — 15.73°S, 70.17°W

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The named rock units Pediomyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pediomyidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pediomyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Pediomyidae, 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

55 references

Each of the 211 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. 43 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 Pediomyidae

Credit
Frank E. Beddard
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pediomyidae 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 itPediomyoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Simpson 1927)