Ruscinomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetodontiniPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 6.965 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.245 Mya.
27 occurrences of Ruscinomys 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
27 occurrences- Miocene73%
- Pliocene26%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
7 formations
- Alfambra Formation12
- Ravin de Ratavoux Formation2
- Venta del Moro-Villatoya Formation1
- Alhambra Formation1
- Cigarron Formation1
- Esbarrondadoiro Formation1
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The named rock units Ruscinomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ruscinomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ruscinomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Occitanomys (Rhodomys) adroveri16 sites
- Parapodemus gaudryi11 sites
- Eliomys truci10 sites
- Huerzelerimys turoliensis9 sites
- Spermophilinus8 sites
- Atlantoxerus7 sites
- Prolagus7 sites
- Dipoides6 sites
- Paraethomys6 sites
- Stephanomys ramblensis6 sites
- Stephanomys5 sites
- Cervidae4 sites
- Galerix4 sites
- Hipparion4 sites
- Apocricetus barrierei3 sites
- Apodemus3 sites
- Apodemus gudrunae3 sites
- Blancomys3 sites
- Gazella3 sites
- Neocricetodon fahlbuschi3 sites
- Parabos3 sites
- Prolagus crusafonti3 sites
- Vipera3 sites
- Aceratherium incisivum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Ruscinomys, 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
15 references- Rodent faunas of the Mio-Pliocene continental sediments of the Teruel-Alfambra region, Spain12
- Mimomys occitanus de Villalba Alta et Arquillo 3 (Espagne)2
- Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics1
- I vertebrati fossili della cava del Monticino di Brisighella: una finestra sui popolamenti continentali del Mediterraneo nel Miocene superiore1
- Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon1
- Archaeodesmana baetica, sp. nov. (Mammalia, Insectivora, Talpidae) from the Mio-Pliocene transition of the Granada Basin, southern Spain1
- Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocene des Pyrenees-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938)1
- La sucesion de micromamiferos en el complejo carstico de Casablanca (Almenara, Castellon): problematica biogeografica1
- Depósito messianos do sul de Portugal, mamíferos (incluindo Rodentia e Lagomorpha) e idades K-Ar*1
- Dos nuevos yacimientos de vertebrado terciarios continentales: "La Roma II" (Alfambra, Teruel) y Búnker de Valdecebro (Teruel)1
- Accumulated bones in a Pliocene cave in Cerro Pelado, Spain1
- Casa del Acero: nueva fuana Turoliense de vertebrados (Mioceno Superior de Fortuna, Murcia)1
Each of the 27 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. 3 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 content0
No picture of Ruscinomys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ruscinomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itCricetodontini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret 1890