Scleromys

Scleromys is an extinct genus of dinomyid rodents that inhabited the continent of South America during the Miocene epoch.

Scleromys

Fields, R.W. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DinomyidaePBDB
Diet
frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Dinomyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dinomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 66 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17.5 Mya11.63 Mya21.5 Mya4.8 Mya

66 occurrences of Scleromys 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

66 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

12 formations

Villavieja — 3.26°N, 75.19°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.61°WPinturas — 48.90°S, 70.17°WPinturas — 48.97°S, 71.40°WPinturas — 47.02°S, 70.68°WPinturas — 47.17°S, 70.21°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.68°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 7.66°S, 72.54°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WLa Victoria — 3.27°N, 75.19°WIpururo — 10.58°S, 73.60°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°WYahuarango — 12.65°S, 71.32°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WMariño — 32.88°S, 68.94°WChinches — 32.00°S, 69.74°WCastilletes — 11.91°N, 71.34°W

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The named rock units Scleromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scleromys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scleromys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Scleromys, 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

20 references

Each of the 66 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Scleromys

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fields, R.W.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887