Tenudomys dakotensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TenudomysPBDB
- 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 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 24.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tenudomys dakotensis 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 Tenudomys dakotensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tenudomys dakotensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tenudomys dakotensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Megalagus primitivus3 sites
- Nanotragulus loomisi3 sites
- Palaeocastor3 sites
- Palaeolagus hypsodus3 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi3 sites
- Proscalops evelynae3 sites
- Archaeocyon leptodus2 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae2 sites
- Capacikala gradatus2 sites
- Capatanka gaulodon2 sites
- Cynarctoides roii2 sites
- Leptauchenia decora2 sites
- Mesocyon temnodon2 sites
- Proharrymys fedti2 sites
- Arretotherium1 site
- Cynarctoides lemur1 site
- Cynodesmus thooides1 site
- Diceratherium marriottae1 site
- Ekgmowechashala philotau1 site
- Herpetotherium youngi1 site
- Hesperocyoninae1 site
- Hitonkala andersontau1 site
- Leidymys blacki1 site
- Leptauchenia major1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tenudomys dakotensis, 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
3 references- Locomotory adaptations in entoptychine gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) and the mosaic evolution of fossoriality1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
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. 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 dakotensis 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 dakotensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tenudomys dakotensis 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 itTenudomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Macdonald 1963)