Reithrodontomys

Reithrodontomys is the genus of groove-toothed New World harvest mice.

Reithrodontomys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
harvest mousePBDB
Sits inside
ReithrodontomyiniPBDB
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 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 11 of 94 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 81 of 94 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 94 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

94 occurrences of Reithrodontomys on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

94 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

18 formations

Kingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WVerde — 34.50°N, 112.50°WVerde — 34.77°N, 111.85°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.69°N, 109.45°WSan Diego — 32.62°N, 117.00°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WRiverbank — 38.60°N, 121.50°W

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The named rock units Reithrodontomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reithrodontomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Reithrodontomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Reithrodontomys, 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

58 references

Each of the 94 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. 46 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Reithrodontomys

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Reithrodontomys sp. · UWBM:Mammalogy:UWBM:Mamm:74514

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itReithrodontomyini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Giglioli 1874