Baiomys minimus
No picture of Baiomys minimus 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 Baiomys minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaiomysPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Baiomys minimus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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 Baiomys minimus 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.
Baiomys minimus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Baiomys minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Camelops5 sites
- Nannippus peninsulatus5 sites
- Sigmodon minor5 sites
- Bensonomys arizonae4 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Platygonus4 sites
- Antilocapridae3 sites
- Citellus (Otospermophilus) bensoni3 sites
- Cratogeomys bensoni3 sites
- Dipodomys minor3 sites
- Leporidae3 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) fossilis3 sites
- Onychomys bensoni3 sites
- Perognathinae3 sites
- Canini2 sites
- Chasmaporthetes ossifragus2 sites
- Felinae2 sites
- Geomys (Nerterogeomys) minor2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Hemiauchenia2 sites
- Neotoma2 sites
- Nerterogeomys persimilis2 sites
- Odocoileus2 sites
- Perognathus gidleyi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Baiomys minimus, 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
4 references- Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy of Pliocene-Pleistocene Terrestrial Deposits and Vertebrate Faunas, San Pedro Valley, Arizona2
- Small mammal fossils and correlation of continental deposits, Safford and Duncan basins, Arizona1
- Mammals of the Wolf Ranch Local Fauna, Pliocene of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona1
- The Late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas from the San Pedro Valley, Ariz1
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 Baiomys minimus 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 Baiomys minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baiomys minimus 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 itBaiomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gidley 1922)