Tataromys sigmodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TataromysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
25 occurrences of Tataromys sigmodon 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
25 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation7
- Ulantatal Formation7
- Wulanbulage Formation2
- Aral Formation2
- Loh Formation2
- Paoniuquan Formation1
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The named rock units Tataromys sigmodon 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.
Tataromys sigmodon and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tataromys sigmodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Tsaganomys altaicus14 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis12 sites
- Tataromys minor10 sites
- Tataromys plicidens10 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus9 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus9 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli9 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus8 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis8 sites
- Huangomys frequens7 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens7 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus6 sites
- Cricetops dormitor6 sites
- Desmatolagus pusillus6 sites
- Heosminthus6 sites
- Karakoromys decessus6 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis6 sites
- Yindirtemys shevyrevae6 sites
- Amphechinus5 sites
- Desmatolagus5 sites
- Didymoconus5 sites
- Eucricetodon5 sites
- Gobisorex kingae5 sites
- Parasminthus asiaecentralis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Tataromys sigmodon, 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
12 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)4
- 6. The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mamalia)4
- The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia) from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)4
- Notes on Early Oligocene ursids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China3
- The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area2
- Middle Oligocene Ctenodactylids (Rodentia, Mammalia) of Ulantatal, Nei Mongol2
- Nanpoping fauna of the Lanzhou Basin and its environmental significance1
- Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China1
- Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China1
- A New Locality Yielding Mid-Tertiary Mammals Near Lanzhou, Gansu1
- Preliminary Observations on the Oligocene Deposits and Mammalian Fauna from Alashan Zuoqi, Nei Monggol1
- Nine new rodents from the Oligocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 25 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.
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No picture of Tataromys sigmodon 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 sigmodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tataromys sigmodon 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 itTataromys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923