Tarnomys quercinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TarnomysPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tarnomys quercinus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tarnomys quercinus 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.
Tarnomys quercinus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tarnomys quercinus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Amphicynodon brachyrostris1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Anguis1 site
- Blainvillimys langei1 site
- Bransatoglis attenuatus1 site
- Desmatolagus1 site
- Ephemerolagus nievae1 site
- Gelocus communis1 site
- Glamys priscus1 site
- Helvetisaurus1 site
- Lophallomys atavus1 site
- Microchoerus1 site
- Necrosaurus1 site
- Palaeotheriidae1 site
- Paroxacron1 site
- Plesiolacerta lydekkeri1 site
- Plesiomeryx cadurcensis1 site
- Pseudoltinomys1 site
- Tetracus nanus1 site
- Theridomys calafensis1 site
- Treposciurus manentis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tarnomys quercinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Mammalian faunas from the Paleogene of the Sierra Palomera (Teruel, Spain)2
- Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia)1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tarnomys quercinus 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 Tarnomys quercinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tarnomys quercinus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itTarnomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartenberger and Schmidt-Kittler 1976