Byzantinia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetodontiniPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
21 occurrences of Byzantinia 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
21 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
7 formations
- Bayraktepe Formation5
- Tuğlu Formation3
- Kizilirmak Formation2
- Tuglu Formation2
- Lefkon Formation1
- Pikermi Formation · Mesogea Basin Group1
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The named rock units Byzantinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Byzantinia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Byzantinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Myomimus dehmi4 sites
- Schizogalerix4 sites
- Gazella3 sites
- Hipparion3 sites
- Occitanomys provocator3 sites
- Progonomys cathalai3 sites
- Prolagus3 sites
- Prostrepsiceros3 sites
- Acerorhinus2 sites
- Ceratotherium neumayri2 sites
- Chilotherium2 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici2 sites
- Ctenocervus2 sites
- Hystrix primigenia2 sites
- Keramidomys2 sites
- Latonia2 sites
- Megacricetodon2 sites
- Microstonyx major2 sites
- Myomimus2 sites
- Palaeotragus rouenii2 sites
- Pliospalax2 sites
- Tragoportax2 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia1 site
- Allocritecus aylasevimae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Byzantinia, 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
10 references- The Cricetodontini (Rodentia) from the Bayraktepe section (Canakkale, Turkey)5
- Rodents from the Upper Miocene Tuğlu Formation (Çankırı Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey)3
- Vallesian and Turolian rodents from Biotia, Attica and Rhodes (Greece) I + II3
- A preliminary zonation of the continental Neogene of Anatolia based on Rodents2
- Geology of a new Late Miocene mammal locality in central Anatolia, Turkey2
- The Neogene of the Island of Euboea (Evia), a review2
- [Palaeontological and biostratigraphical study of the Neogene/Quaternary micromammals of Mygdonia basin (Macedonia, Greece)]1
- Mammalian fossils of Samos and Pikermi, Part 1. The Turolian rodents and insectivores of Samos1
- The Geology of the Neogene sediments north of Serrai and the use of rodent faunas for biostratigraphic control1
- A new Ruscinomys (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Tertiary (Pikermian) of Samos, Greece1
Each of the 21 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.
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No picture of Byzantinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Byzantinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCricetodontini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Bruijn 1976