Dendromurinae

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NesomyidaePBDB

Diet

herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene11%
• Pliocene30%
• Pleistocene43%
• Holocene16%

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.

Where Dendromurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Dendromus19 sites
• Epimys (Aethomys)13 sites
• Mus12 sites
• Otomys12 sites
• Dasymys10 sites
• Mystromys10 sites
• Hystrix9 sites
• Steatomys9 sites
• Tatera9 sites
• Hipparion8 sites
• Praomys8 sites
• Tragelaphus strepsiceros8 sites
• Aepyceros melampus7 sites
• Crocidura7 sites
• Cryptomys hottentotus7 sites
• Elephantulus7 sites
• Elephantulus brachyrhynchus7 sites
• Eptesicus7 sites
• Gazella7 sites
• Graphiurus7 sites
• Malacothrix7 sites
• Rhabdomys7 sites
• Rhinolophus7 sites
• Saccostomus7 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Dendromurinae, 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.

• Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern TanzaniaLeakey and Harris, 1987 · Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain3
• Plio-Pleistocene fossil mammalian microfauna of southern Africa: a preliminary report including descriptions of two new fossil muroid genera (Mammalia: Rodentia)Pocock, 1987 · Palaeontologica Africana3
• The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South AfricaKlein, 1977 · South African Archaeological Bulletin3
• The Makapansgat australopithecine environmentRayner et al., 1993 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article2
• La faune des depots pleistocenes de Ouest du lac Natron (Tanzanie) interpretation biostratigraphiqueGeraads, 1987 · Sci.Geol.Bulletin2
• Structure of Nylsrley SavannaHuntley and Walker, 1982 · Ecology of Tropical Savannas, Huntley B.J.&B.H. Walker, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 19822
• The Hunters of the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave TaphonomyBrain, 1981 · University of Chicago Press, Chicago2
• Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South AfricaKlein, 1979 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article2
• Some evidence of chronology and paleoecology of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai from the fossil BovidaeVrba, 1975 · Nature2
• Earliest known procaviid hyracoid from the late Miocene of NamibiaRasmussen et al., 1996 · Journal of Mammalogy · journal article1
• Fossil elephantoids, Awash paleolake basins, and the Afar triple junction, EthiopiaKalb, 1995 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology1
• The Swartkrans Palaeontological Research Project in perspective: results and conclusionsBrain, 1994 · South African Journal of Science1

Each of the 32 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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.

What may have been alongside itNesomyidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Alston 1875)