Clyomys

Clyomys is a South American rodent genus in the family Echimyidae. It contains two species, found in tropical savannas and grasslands from circa 100 m (300 ft) to 1,100 m (3,600 ft) elevation in central Brazil and eastern Paraguay.

Clyomys

PresN · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchimyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Echimyidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Echimyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 9 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Clyomys 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

9 occurrences

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

Botucatu — 29.57°S, 51.63°WBotucatu — 29.77°S, 50.55°WBotucatu — 29.56°S, 51.40°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°W

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The named rock units Clyomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Clyomys, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content2

Picture of Clyomys

Credit
PresN
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Clyomys laticeps · ummz:mammals:161031

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEchimyidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1916