Promimomys

Promimomys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrotiniPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9 Mya5.09 Mya9.9 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Promimomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

21 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

6 formations

Prolemais — 40.46°N, 21.78°EProlemais — 40.50°N, 21.74°EPorsuk — 39.47°N, 31.74°EMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EKuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°EKomnina — 40.15°N, 21.94°E

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The named rock units Promimomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Promimomys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Promimomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

346 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Promimomys, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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

Media content1

Picture of Promimomys

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itMicrotini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1955