Karakoromys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TataromyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- 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.
22 occurrences of Karakoromys 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
22 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
8 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation10
- Ulantatal Formation3
- Keziletuogayi Formation3
- Hanjiajing Formation2
- Paoniuquan Formation1
- Wulanbulage Formation1
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The named rock units Karakoromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Karakoromys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Karakoromys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Eucricetodon asiaticus10 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis9 sites
- Cricetops dormitor8 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus8 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis7 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon7 sites
- Eucricetodon6 sites
- Tataromys plicidens6 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus6 sites
- Allosminthus khandae5 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus5 sites
- Desmatolagus5 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi5 sites
- Ordolagus teilhardi5 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens5 sites
- Selenomys mimicus5 sites
- Tataromys minor5 sites
- Ardynomys4 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus4 sites
- Cyclomylus4 sites
- Desmatolagus pusillus4 sites
- Heosminthus4 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae4 sites
- Hyaenodon4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Karakoromys, 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
13 references- 6. The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mamalia)6
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)3
- Nanpoping fauna of the Lanzhou Basin and its environmental significance2
- Late Eocene-early Oligocene lithological and biological Stratigraphy in the Burqin region of Xinjiang2
- The Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia) from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)1
- Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China1
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang1
- Notes on Early Oligocene ursids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China1
- A late Eocene eomyid rodent from the Zaysan Basin of Kazakhstan1
- Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China1
- Discovery of early medial Oligocene mammalian fauna from Kekeamu, Alxa Left Banner, Nei Mongol1
- Middle Oligocene Ctenodactylids (Rodentia, Mammalia) of Ulantatal, Nei Mongol1
Each of the 22 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. 1 further reference is 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 content0
No picture of Karakoromys 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 Karakoromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Karakoromys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTataromyinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923