Copemys russelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopemysPBDB
- 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 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Copemys russelli 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
14 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
- Barstow Formation9
- MR Caliente Formation2
- Bopesta Formation1
- Dove Spring Formation1
- NS Caliente Formation1
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The named rock units Copemys russelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copemys russelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Copemys russelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Copemys longidens8 sites
- Cupidinimus halli7 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi7 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini7 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis7 sites
- Tamias ateles7 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis6 sites
- Perognathus furlongi6 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus5 sites
- Perognathus minutus5 sites
- Copemys barstowensis4 sites
- Gomphotherium4 sites
- Camelidae3 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) cerroensis3 sites
- Leporidae3 sites
- Petauristodon mathewsi3 sites
- Protospermophilus quatalensis3 sites
- Ammospermophilus fossilis2 sites
- Copemys esmeraldensis2 sites
- Domninoides2 sites
- Miospermophilus2 sites
- Mustela2 sites
- Paradomnina relictus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Copemys russelli, 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
5 references- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California9
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California1
- Stratigraphy Of The Middle Miocene Bopesta Formation, Southern Sierra Nevada, California1
- Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley badlands, California; Part 1, Geology, faunal interpretations, and systematic descriptions of Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia1
Each of the 14 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 Copemys russelli 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 Copemys russelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copemys russelli 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 itCopemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (James 1963)