Saidomys
Saidomys is an extinct genus of murid rodent that lived in Africa during the Pliocene epoch.
No picture of Saidomys 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 Saidomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MuridaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
10 occurrences of Saidomys 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
10 occurrences- Miocene16%
- Pliocene74%
- Pleistocene10%
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
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group2
- Wembere-Manonga Formation2
- Muluk Formation1
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group1
- Nawata or Nachukui Formation1
- Gar El Muluk Formation1
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The named rock units Saidomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saidomys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Saidomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Hydrocynus4 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
- Damalacra3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus3 sites
- Osteichthyes3 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Anancus kenyensis2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Eurygnathohippus turkanense2 sites
- Giraffidae2 sites
- Golunda gurai2 sites
- Hippotragus2 sites
- Kolpochoerus afarensis2 sites
- Lanistes2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Millardia coppensi2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Nyanzachoerus kanamensis2 sites
- Oenomys2 sites
- Polypterus2 sites
- Praedamalis2 sites
- Primelephas korotorensis2 sites
- Saccostomus2 sites
- Spathopsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Saidomys, 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
7 references- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania2
- Rongeurs et Lagomorphes du gisement pliocene de Pul-e Charkhi, basssin de Kabul, Afghanistan2
- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19732
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa1
- Pliocene Facies and Fossil Contents of Qaret EI-Muluk Formation at Wadi EI-Natrun Depression, Western Desert, Egypt1
- The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia1
- A Primitive New Middle Pliocenemurid from Wadi El Natrun,Egypt1
Each of the 10 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 Saidomys 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 Saidomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Saidomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. James and Slaughter 1974