Praomys

Praomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. It contains the following species:Praomys coetzeei Dalton's mouse, Praomys daltoni De Graaff's soft-furred mouse, Praomys degraaffi Deroo's mouse, Praomys derooi Hartwig's soft-furred mouse, Praomys hartwigi Jackson's soft-furred mouse, Praomys jacksoni Least soft-furred mouse, Praomys minor Misonne's soft-furred mouse, Praomys misonnei Cameroon soft-furred mouse, Praomys morio Muton's soft-furred mouse, Praomys mutoni Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse, Praomys obscurus Petter's soft-furred mouse, Praomys petteri Forest soft-furred mouse, Praomys rostratus Tullberg's soft-furred mouse, Praomys tullbergi

Praomys

Zbyszek Boratynski · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Also called
African soft-furred ratPBDB
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 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 25 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 6 of 25 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Praomys on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

25 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

5 formations

Makapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EHadar — 11.10°N, 40.57°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°W

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The named rock units Praomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Praomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Praomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

375 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Praomys, 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

17 references

Each of the 25 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. 5 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 Praomys

Credit
Zbyszek Boratynski
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Praomys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thomas 1915)