Tsaganomys

Tsaganomys altaicus is an extinct species of rodent from Asia, and the only species in the genus Tsaganomys.

Tsaganomys

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TsaganomyinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Bathyergidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Bathyergidae
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.

Eocene — about 0 of 59 occurrencesOligocene — about 58 of 59 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 59 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya23.04 Mya34.4 Mya15.5 Mya

59 occurrences of Tsaganomys 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

59 occurrences

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

9 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.31°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.27°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EXianshuihe — 36.46°N, 104.16°EUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°EQingshuiying — 36.60°N, 105.69°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.10°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°EJiaozigou — 35.67°N, 103.38°EJiaozigou — 35.60°N, 103.20°EWulanbulage — 39.83°N, 108.73°ENaogangdai — 42.04°N, 111.53°EHanjiajing — 36.06°N, 103.79°E

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The named rock units Tsaganomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tsaganomys and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Tsaganomys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Tsaganomys, 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

13 references

Each of the 59 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Tsaganomys

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tsaganomys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTsaganomyinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923