Zygodontomys
Zygodontomys is a genus of rodent in the tribe Oryzomyini of the family Cricetidae. Its closest relative may be Scolomys. It ranges from Central America east to the Guianas. It contains two species: Zygodontomys brunneus and Zygodontomys brevicauda.
No picture of Zygodontomys 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 Zygodontomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- cane micePBDB
- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Zygodontomys on record. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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 Zygodontomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus4 sites
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris4 sites
- Boidae2 sites
- Calomys2 sites
- Ctenomys2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Dusicyon2 sites
- Eira barbara2 sites
- Eumops perotis2 sites
- Euphractus sexcinctus2 sites
- Galea musteloides2 sites
- Heteromys2 sites
- Lagostomus maximus2 sites
- Leopardus pardalis2 sites
- Marmosa robinsoni2 sites
- Morenelaphus2 sites
- Myocastor coypus2 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Pecari tajacu2 sites
- Puma concolor2 sites
- Puma yagouaroundi2 sites
- Sciurus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zygodontomys, 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
5 references- Pliocene sigmodontine rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae) in northernmost South America: test of biogeographic hypotheses and revised evolutionary scenarios1
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review1
- Barro Colorado Island and Tropical Biology1
- Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan Habitats1
- Hoffstetter, 19681
Each of the 5 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 Zygodontomys 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 Zygodontomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygodontomys 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 itCricetidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1897