Dipodomyinae

Dipodomyinae is a subfamily of heteromyid rodents, the kangaroo rats and mice. Dipodomyines, as implied by both their common and scientific names, are bipedal; they also jump exceptionally well. Kangaroo rats and mice are native to desert and semidesert ecosystems of western North America from southern Canada to central Mexico. They are generally herbivorous foragers, and dig and live in burrows.

Dipodomyinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteromyidaePBDB
Diet
granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 151 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 151 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 107 of 151 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 8 of 151 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.3–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.6–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 24 occurrences867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 25 occurrences433 ka–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences9.4 Mya11.7 ka13 Mya0 Mya

151 occurrences of Dipodomyinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

151 occurrences

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

21 formations

"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WSt. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WGila Conglomerate — 32.69°N, 109.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WAlkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WTemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WWhite Narrows — 35.70°N, 115.20°WSeymour — 33.80°N, 99.70°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WTecopa Lake Beds — 36.00°N, 116.25°W

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The named rock units Dipodomyinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipodomyinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dipodomyinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Dipodomyinae, 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

44 references

Each of the 151 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. 32 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dipodomyinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dipodomyinae 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.