Aratomys bilikeensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AratomysPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 6.965 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aratomys bilikeensis 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aratomys bilikeensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aratomys bilikeensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aratomys bilikeensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Apodemus3 sites
- Ochotona3 sites
- Trischizolagus mirificus3 sites
- Allorattus engesseri1 site
- Anatolomys teilhardi1 site
- Apodemus lii1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Brachyscirtetes robustus1 site
- Castor anderssoni1 site
- Chardinomys bilikeensis1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Erinaceus mongolicus1 site
- Eutamias ertemtensis1 site
- Huaxiamys1 site
- Kowalskia similis1 site
- Kowalskia zhengi1 site
- Lophocricetus grabaui1 site
- Lophocricetus pusillus1 site
- Lunanosorex lii1 site
- Micromys bendai1 site
- Microtodon atavus1 site
- Murina1 site
- Myomimus sinensis1 site
- Myotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aratomys bilikeensis, 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- Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores2
- The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha)1
Each of the 3 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 Aratomys bilikeensis 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 Aratomys bilikeensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aratomys bilikeensis 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 itAratomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qiu and Storch 2000