Diprionomys

Diprionomys is an extinct genus of Heteromyidae that existed in the United States during the Late Miocene period.

No picture of Diprionomys 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 Diprionomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteromyinaePBDB
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 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Miocene — about 8 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPliocene16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–7.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.6–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–6.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.9–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–5.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12.5 Mya9.4 Mya16.8 Mya4.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Diprionomys 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

9 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

7 formations

Thousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WEsmeralda — 37.96°N, 118.03°WChalk Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WSevier — 38.58°N, 112.27°W

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The named rock units Diprionomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diprionomys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diprionomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diprionomys, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Diprionomys 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 Diprionomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diprionomys 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.

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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What may have been alongside itHeteromyinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellogg 1910