Diamantomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThryonomyoideaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 9.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
20 occurrences of Diamantomys 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
20 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Legetet Formation3
- Tiim Formation2
- Upper Koru Series Formation · Kericho Phonolites Group1
- Erageleit Formation1
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The named rock units Diamantomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diamantomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diamantomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Afrocricetodon songhori9 sites
- Paraphiomys pigotti7 sites
- Gulella sp.6 sites
- Simonimys genovefae6 sites
- Walangania africanus6 sites
- Siamotragulus songhorensis5 sites
- Amphechinus4 sites
- Carnivora4 sites
- Gonaxis sp.4 sites
- Kenyamys mariae4 sites
- Limicolaria4 sites
- Megapedetes4 sites
- Notocricetodon4 sites
- Ophidia4 sites
- Paranomalurus4 sites
- Paraphiomys4 sites
- Tayloria sp.4 sites
- Testudines4 sites
- Trochonanina sp.4 sites
- Vulcanisciurus africanus4 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Burtoa sp.3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Edouardia sp.3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Diamantomys, 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
12 references- Dental remains of Lower Miocene small rodents from Napak (Uganda): Afrocricetodontidae, Myophiomyidae, Kenyamyidae and Sciuridae.5
- The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya3
- A Mammalian Fauna from the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Kenya2
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]2
- First African record of the Miocene Asian mouse-deer Siamotragulus (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Tragulidae): implications for the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the advanced selenodont tragulids1
- New Catarrhine fossils from Moroto II, Early Middle Miocene (ca 17.5 Ma) Uganda1
- Geology and Palaeobiology of the Central and Southern Namib Desert, Southwestern Africa, Volume 1: Geology and History of Study1
- The discovery of lower and middle Miocene vertebrates at Auchas, southern Namibia1
- New hominoid fossils from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya1
- Systematics and biogeography of middle Miocene rodents from the Muruyur Beds, Baringo District, Kenya1
- Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya1
- New Potassium-Argon Age Determinations Relevant to the Miocene Fossil Mammal Sequence in East Africa1
Each of the 20 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 Diamantomys was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and 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 Diamantomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diamantomys 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 itThryonomyoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stromer 1922