Proheteromys sulculus
No picture of Proheteromys sulculus 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 Proheteromys sulculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Proheteromys sulculus 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
6 formations
- Barstow Formation2
- Hector Formation2
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
- Crowder Formation1
- Cajon Valley Beds Formation1
- Branch Canyon Formation1
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The named rock units Proheteromys sulculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proheteromys sulculus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Proheteromys sulculus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Parapliohippus carrizoensis4 sites
- Aepycamelus3 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Mioheteromyinae2 sites
- Miospermophilus2 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus2 sites
- Paramiolabis tenuis2 sites
- Perognathus furlongi2 sites
- Perognathus minutus2 sites
- Tomarctus hippophaga2 sites
- Acris1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Andrias matthewi1 site
- Angustidens vireti1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Archaeohippus mourningi1 site
- Balantiomys oregonensis1 site
- Barbouromeryx1 site
- Canidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Proheteromys sulculus, 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
6 references- Biostratigraphic relationships of Tertiary small vertebrates from Cajon Valley, San Bernardino County, California2
- Hemingfordian/Barstovian Land Mammal Age faunas in the central Mojave Desert, exclusive of the Barstow Fossil Beds2
- Stratigraphy and geochronology of Miocene strata in the central Mojave Desert, California1
- Geology and mammalian biostratigraphy of a part of the northern Cady Mountains, Mojave Desert, California1
- The Hemingfordian mammal fauna of the Vedder locality Branch Canyon Formation, Santa Barbara, California. Part II. Rodentia (Eomyidae and Heteromydiae)1
- Early Miocene rodents and insectivores from northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Proheteromys sulculus 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 Proheteromys sulculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proheteromys sulculus 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.
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What may have been alongside itProheteromys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1960