Proheteromys latidens
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIV.MUSEUM METHODS CLASS · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ProheteromysPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Proheteromys latidens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Proheteromys latidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proheteromys latidens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Proheteromys latidens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Paroreodon parvus2 sites
- Promerycochoerus superbus2 sites
- Allomys reticulatus1 site
- Alwoodia magna1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Apeomys whistleri1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Campestrallomys1 site
- Capacikala1 site
- Copedelphys1 site
- Desmatolagus1 site
- Domnina1 site
- Dyticonastis rensbergeri1 site
- Entoptychus1 site
- Entoptychus cavifrons1 site
- Entoptychus minor1 site
- Eporeodon occidentalis1 site
- Herpetotherium merriami1 site
- Leidymys alicae1 site
- Leidymys lockingtonianus1 site
- Leidymys nematodon1 site
- Leptodontomys1 site
- Meniscomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Proheteromys latidens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Proheteromys latidens
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIV.MUSEUM METHODS CLASS
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Proheteromys latidens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProheteromys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth and Samuels 2015