Tenudomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntoptychidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
14 occurrences of Tenudomys 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
14 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
7 formations
- Sharps Formation4
- Renova Formation2
- Brule Formation1
- Gering Formation1
- John Day Formation1
- Sespe Formation1
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The named rock units Tenudomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tenudomys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tenudomys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Palaeolagus hypsodus6 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi6 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae5 sites
- Heliscomys4 sites
- Leidymys blacki4 sites
- Megalagus primitivus4 sites
- Meniscomys4 sites
- Nanodelphys4 sites
- Nanotragulus loomisi4 sites
- Palaeocastor4 sites
- Proscalops4 sites
- Domnina3 sites
- Eomyidae3 sites
- Nototamias3 sites
- Proharrymys fedti3 sites
- Proscalops evelynae3 sites
- Protosciurus mengi3 sites
- Protospermophilus3 sites
- Agnotocastor2 sites
- Allomys2 sites
- Altasciurus clausulus2 sites
- Amphechinus horncloudi2 sites
- Ansomys cyanotephrus2 sites
- Aplodontiidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Tenudomys, 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
11 references- Geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) from the Ridgeview local fauna, early-Early Arikareean (Late Oligocene) of western Nebraska2
- Depositional Environments, Paleoecology, and Biostratigraphy of Arikareean Bozeman Group Strata West of the Continental Divide in Montana2
- New rodents from the lower Miocene Gering Formation of western Nebraska2
- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Locomotory adaptations in entoptychine gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) and the mosaic evolution of fossoriality1
- Small mammals from the Sespe Formation (Arikareean) of Cañada Chiquita, Orange County, California1
- Geology and paleontology of the upper John Day beds, John Day river valley, Oregon: lithostratigraphic and biochronologic revision in the Haystack Valley and Kimberly areas (Kimberly and Mt. Misery quadrangles)1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Geomyoid rodents (Mammalia) from the Orellan (middle Oligocene) of Nebraska,1
- Pleurolicine rodents (Geomyoidea) of the John Day Formation, Oregon, and their relationships to taxa from the early and middle Miocene, South Dakota1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Tenudomys 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 Tenudomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tenudomys 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 itEntoptychidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rensberger 1973