Eothenomys
Eothenomys is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It contains the following species:Kachin red-backed vole Pratt's vole Southwest China vole Père David's vole Yunnan red-backed vole Chaotung vole Yulungshan vole Ward's red-backed vole

Paul Huet (1803-1869) · Public Domain · 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
- MyodiniPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eothenomys 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Eothenomys and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eothenomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Cuon3 sites
- Macaca3 sites
- Panthera pardus3 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis3 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca2 sites
- Arctonyx collaris2 sites
- Belomys2 sites
- Cervus unicolor2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Hipposideros2 sites
- Hydropotes2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Leopoldamys2 sites
- Megalovis2 sites
- Niviventer2 sites
- Panthera tigris2 sites
- Rhinopithecus2 sites
- Rhizomys2 sites
- Sciurotamias2 sites
- Stegodon preorientalis2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Sus scrofa2 sites
- Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus2 sites
- Ursus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eothenomys, 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- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China1
- First discovery of Megalovis guangxiensis and Alligator cf. sinensis in Guangdong1
Each of the 3 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 content2
Picture of Eothenomys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Paul Huet (1803-1869)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Eothenomys melanogaster · MVZ:Mamm:MVZ:Mamm:180936
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Eothenomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyodini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1896