Prosayimys
No picture of Prosayimys 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 Prosayimys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenodactylidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Prosayimys 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
3 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 Prosayimys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prosayimys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Prosayimys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Mammalia2 sites
- Marymus dalanae2 sites
- Primus cheemai2 sites
- Primus microps2 sites
- Prokanisamys kowalskii2 sites
- Sciuridae2 sites
- Soricidae2 sites
- Spanocricetodon2 sites
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Baluchimys1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Ctenodactylidae1 site
- Diatomyidae1 site
- Eumyarion1 site
- Fallomus1 site
- Petauristinae1 site
- Prokanisamys1 site
- Tragulidae1 site
- Tupaiidae1 site
- Zindapiria quadricollis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prosayimys, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome2
- Origin and Evolution of the Diatomyidae, with Clues to Paleoecology from the Fossil Record1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Prosayimys 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 Prosayimys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prosayimys 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCtenodactylidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baskin 1996