Zapodidae

Zapodidae, the jumping mice, is a family of mouse-like rodents in North America and China.

Zapodidae

D Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
jumping mousePBDB
Sits inside
DipodoideaPBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 333 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 333 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 84 of 333 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 125 of 333 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 333 occurrencesPleistocene — about 93 of 333 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 22 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 24 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 23 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 28 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 25 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 15 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 85 occurrences45.9 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

333 occurrences of Zapodidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

333 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

62 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.40°N, 101.27°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.21°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.31°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.76°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.01°ELoh — 45.52°N, 101.31°ELoh — 45.26°N, 101.72°ELoh — 45.50°N, 101.97°EBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WFort Randall — 43.53°N, 99.13°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WFort Randall — 43.49°N, 99.27°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WAlfambra — 40.39°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.48°N, 2.66°WAlcorisa — 40.83°N, 0.80°WAlcorisa — 40.87°N, 0.93°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WMonroe Creek — 43.20°N, 101.80°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTieersihabahe — 46.60°N, 87.73°ETieersihabahe — 46.68°N, 88.48°EKolpak — 45.89°N, 80.56°ERosebud — 43.20°N, 101.80°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°W

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The named rock units Zapodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 146 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zapodidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Zapodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,711 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 272 sites for Zapodidae, and this reads 240 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

128 references

Each of the 333 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. 116 further references are 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 Zapodidae

Credit
D Gordon E. Robertson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zapodidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coues 1875)