Cyclomylus
No picture of Cyclomylus 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 Cyclomylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathyergidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Bathyergidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Bathyergidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
55 occurrences of Cyclomylus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
55 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
6 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation46
- Keziletuogayi Formation5
- Wulanbulage Formation1
- Ulantatal Formation1
- Naogangdai Formation1
- Qingshuiying Formation1
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The named rock units Cyclomylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclomylus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cyclomylus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Tsaganomys altaicus21 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis17 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus16 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae15 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus13 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus12 sites
- Cricetops dormitor12 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens12 sites
- Desmatolagus11 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae11 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus10 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis9 sites
- Gobisorex kingae9 sites
- Heosminthus minutus9 sites
- Karakoromys decessus9 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi9 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus8 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi8 sites
- Heosminthus8 sites
- Ordolagus teilhardi8 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis8 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis8 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon8 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Cyclomylus, 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
9 references- Tsaganomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia (Valley of Lakes)33
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)12
- Late Eocene-early Oligocene lithological and biological Stratigraphy in the Burqin region of Xinjiang4
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang1
- Oligocene rodents from the Nomogen ( =Nom Khong) Area of Nei Mongol, China, and comments on related stratigraphy1
- Notes on Early Oligocene ursids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China1
- Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China1
- Preliminary Observations on the Oligocene Deposits and Mammalian Fauna from Alashan Zuoqi, Nei Monggol1
- New Bathyergidae from the Oligocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 55 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
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No picture of Cyclomylus 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 Cyclomylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclomylus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBathyergidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923