Texomys ritchiei
No picture of Texomys ritchiei 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 Texomys ritchiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TexomysPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Texomys ritchiei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Texomys ritchiei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Texomys ritchiei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Texomys ritchiei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Copemys5 sites
- Geomyoidea4 sites
- Castoridae3 sites
- Limnoecus niobrarensis3 sites
- Merychippus gunteri3 sites
- Miomustela3 sites
- Nototamias3 sites
- Antrozous2 sites
- Lagomorpha2 sites
- Prosynthetoceras francisi2 sites
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Ammospermophilus1 site
- Aphelops1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Borophaginae1 site
- Calippus circulus1 site
- Calippus proplacidus1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Cormohipparion goorisi1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Edaphocyon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Texomys ritchiei, 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
2 references- Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at two locations on Fort Polk, Louisiana4
- A New Genus of Geomyoid Rodent from the Miocene of Texas and Panama2
Each of the 6 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 Texomys ritchiei 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 Texomys ritchiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Texomys ritchiei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTexomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Slaughter 1981