Argyromys
No picture of Argyromys 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 Argyromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Argyromys 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
7 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Argyromys 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.
Argyromys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Argyromys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Bohlinosminthus parvulus3 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex3 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus3 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus3 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis3 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens3 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli3 sites
- Tataromys minor3 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Cheloniidae2 sites
- Desmatolagus2 sites
- Eucricetodon2 sites
- Eumysodon spurius2 sites
- Gobiosminthus2 sites
- Gobiosminthus qiui2 sites
- Heosminthus2 sites
- Huangomys frequens2 sites
- Lophiomeryx2 sites
- Miomeryx2 sites
- Parasminthus asiaecentralis2 sites
- Prodremotherium2 sites
- Steneofiber2 sites
- Tachyoryctoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Argyromys, 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
3 references- A new species of Argyromys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia): Its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan3
- Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakstan3
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
Each of the 7 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 Argyromys 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 Argyromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Argyromys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCricetidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1958