Prosomys
No picture of Prosomys 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 Prosomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prosomys 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
4 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.
Prosomys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Prosomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Epimeriones2 sites
- Pliopetaurista2 sites
- Alloblarinella europaea1 site
- Allocricetus1 site
- Amphidyromys pusillus1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Anguis fragilis1 site
- Anomalomys1 site
- Baranogale helbingi1 site
- Baranomys1 site
- Blackia1 site
- Blarinella1 site
- Blarinoides mariae1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Canis1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Cokia robusta1 site
- Colubrinae1 site
- Cricetus1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Deinsdorfia1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Desmana nehringi1 site
- Dinohippus leidyanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prosomys, 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
3 references- Prosomys insuliferus (Kowalski 1958) (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Poland and the European part of the USSR2
- Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria1
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Prosomys 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 Prosomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prosomys 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shotwell 1956