Eutypomys montanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EutypomysPBDB
- 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 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Eutypomys montanensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Eutypomys montanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eutypomys montanensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Eutypomys montanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Castoridae3 sites
- Amphechinus horncloudi2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Florentiamys tiptoni2 sites
- Gripholagomys2 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi2 sites
- Leidymys2 sites
- Merycoidodontidae2 sites
- Nanodelphys2 sites
- Nototamias quadratus2 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi2 sites
- Proscalops secundus2 sites
- Protospermophilus2 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus2 sites
- Alwoodia1 site
- Alwoodia harkseni1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Anura1 site
- Archaeolagus macrocephalus1 site
- Archaeolagus primigenius1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Centetodon divaricatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eutypomys montanensis, 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
4 references- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
- Monroe Creek (early Miocene) microfossils from the Wounded Knee area, South Dakota1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
- A new eutypomyid rodent from the Arikareean (Miocene) of Montana1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Eutypomys montanensis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eutypomys montanensis 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 itEutypomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood and Konizeski 1965