Eliomys

Eliomys is a genus of Palaearctic rodents in the family Gliridae, commonly known as garden dormice, a name most commonly applied to the European species Eliomys quercinus.

Eliomys

Arno Laurent · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DryomyinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 124 occurrencesMiocene — about 37 of 124 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 124 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 60 of 124 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 12 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

124 occurrences of Eliomys 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

124 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

11 formations

Alfambra — 40.39°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.59°N, 2.69°WAlfambra — 40.35°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.52°N, 2.72°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EValdeganga — 39.15°N, 1.67°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WAlcala — 39.17°N, 1.52°WAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Eliomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eliomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eliomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,092 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Eliomys, 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

60 references

Each of the 124 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. 48 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 content3

Picture of Eliomys

Credit
Arno Laurent
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Eliomys munbyanus · nhmuk:1977.7.7.2285

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itDryomyinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1840