Progonomys

Progonomys is an extinct genus of murid rodent that lived in Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.

No picture of Progonomys 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 Progonomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 38 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.9–9.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.7–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.67 Mya7.246 Mya12.1 Mya4.8 Mya

38 occurrences of Progonomys 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

38 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

8 formations

Alfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 2.66°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EBou Hanifia — 35.30°N, 0.10°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ETuğlu — 40.42°N, 34.31°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°ESiwalik — 32.45°N, 75.89°E

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The named rock units Progonomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Progonomys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Progonomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Progonomys, 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 38 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

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No picture of Progonomys 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 Progonomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Progonomys 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1938