Ectropomys exiguus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctropomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- 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 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Ectropomys exiguus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ectropomys exiguus 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.
Ectropomys exiguus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ectropomys exiguus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Glamys devoogdi6 sites
- Isoptychus6 sites
- Tarnomys5 sites
- Amphiperatherium4 sites
- Cryptopithecus3 sites
- Vectipithex smithorum3 sites
- Bransatoglis bahloi2 sites
- Dichobune leporina2 sites
- Diplobune2 sites
- Eotalpa anglica2 sites
- Metanchilophus radegondensis2 sites
- Palaeotherium curtum2 sites
- Palaeotherium duvali2 sites
- Plagiolophus annectens2 sites
- Pseudoltinomys2 sites
- Saturninia2 sites
- Saturninia gracilis2 sites
- Schizogliravus daamsi2 sites
- Suevosciurus fraasi2 sites
- Thalerimys2 sites
- Treposciurus2 sites
- Xiphodon2 sites
- Acotherulum quercyi1 site
- Anoplotherium commune1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ectropomys exiguus, 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
3 references- Mammalian taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Bembridge Limestone Formation (Late Eocene, S. England)4
- Ectropomys exiguus n. gen., n. sp., member of the Oltinomyinae n. subfam. (Theridomyidae, Rodentia), from Paleogene deposits of the Isle of Wight (England) and southern Germany3
- The rodents from Santpedor-2 (Ebro Basin, NE Spain) confirm the Oligocene age of the latest primates from the Paleogene of Europe1
Each of the 8 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 Ectropomys exiguus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Ectropomys exiguus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectropomys exiguus 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.
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What may have been alongside itEctropomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972