Tataromys
Searched as Tataromys minor longiceps. The Paleobiology Database treats Tataromys as the accepted name.
No picture of Tataromys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tataromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TataromyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tataromys 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tataromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tataromys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tataromys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Tsaganomys altaicus16 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus14 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis14 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus13 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli13 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus12 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis11 sites
- Huangomys frequens9 sites
- Parasminthus asiaecentralis9 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens8 sites
- Yindirtemys shevyrevae8 sites
- Heosminthus7 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus6 sites
- Bagacricetodon tongi6 sites
- Cricetops dormitor6 sites
- Desmatolagus6 sites
- Desmatolagus pusillus6 sites
- Eucricetodon6 sites
- Gobiosminthus6 sites
- Karakoromys decessus6 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis6 sites
- Shamosminthus tongi6 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis6 sites
- Yindirtemys ulantatalensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Tataromys, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tataromys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tataromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tataromys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTataromyinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923