Tuscahomys major
No picture of Tuscahomys major 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 Tuscahomys major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuscahomysPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Tuscahomys major on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tuscahomys major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tuscahomys major and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tuscahomys major and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Ectocion parvus8 sites
- Copecion davisi7 sites
- Sifrhippus index7 sites
- Didymictis leptomylus6 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi6 sites
- Diacodexis ilicis5 sites
- Mimoperadectes labrus5 sites
- Teilhardina brandti5 sites
- Chriacus badgleyi4 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius4 sites
- Uintacyon gingerichi4 sites
- Arfia junnei3 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni2 sites
- Cantius torresi2 sites
- Coryphodon2 sites
- Didelphodus2 sites
- Ectoganus bighornensis2 sites
- Prototomus deimos2 sites
- Tuscahomys worlandensis2 sites
- Viverravus acutus2 sites
- Apatemys pygmaeus1 site
- Choctawius foxi1 site
- Colpocherus1 site
- Colpocherus mississippiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tuscahomys major, 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- Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming9
- Rodents of the family Cylindrodontidae (Mammalia) from the earliest Eocene of the Tuscahoma Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 10 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
Media content0
No picture of Tuscahomys major 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 Tuscahomys major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tuscahomys major 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 itTuscahomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dawson and Beard 2007