Cremnomys sp.
Cremnomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae native to India. It contains the following species:Cutch rat Elvira rat
Krishnapriya Tamma , cropped and white balanced by Szczureq · CC BY 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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cremnomys sp. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
- Tatrot Formation2
- Pinjor Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Cremnomys sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cremnomys sp. and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cremnomys sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Crocidura3 sites
- Mus3 sites
- Abudhabia cf. kabulense2 sites
- cf. Millardia sp.2 sites
- Murinae2 sites
- Pliosiwalagus whitei2 sites
- Bandicota sivalensis1 site
- Bandicota sp.1 site
- Brachyrhizomys1 site
- Cremnomys cf. blanfordi1 site
- Cremnomys cf. cutchicus1 site
- Dilatomys moginandensis1 site
- Dilatomys sp.1 site
- Golunda kelleri1 site
- Golunda sp.1 site
- Golunda tatroticus1 site
- Omegachelys sahnii1 site
- Parapelomys robertsi1 site
- Rhizomyides sp.1 site
- Soricidae1 site
- Suncus murinus1 site
- Tatera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cremnomys sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cremnomys sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Krishnapriya Tamma , cropped and white balanced by Szczureq
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cremnomys sp. was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cremnomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.