Leopoldamys

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- MurinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Leopoldamys 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
6 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.
Leopoldamys and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leopoldamys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Felis5 sites
- Macaca5 sites
- Niviventer5 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis5 sites
- Sciurotamias5 sites
- Arctonyx collaris4 sites
- Belomys4 sites
- Cervus unicolor4 sites
- Cuon4 sites
- Hapalomys4 sites
- Hystrix4 sites
- Panthera tigris4 sites
- Soriculus4 sites
- Sus4 sites
- Sus scrofa4 sites
- Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus4 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca3 sites
- Anourosorex3 sites
- Chiropodomys3 sites
- Hipposideros3 sites
- Mus3 sites
- Myotis3 sites
- Panthera pardus3 sites
- Petaurista3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Leopoldamys, 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
6 references- The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis1
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China1
- A preliminary study of the early Pleistocene deposits and the mammalian fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fancheng, Anhui, China1
- Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China1
Each of the 6 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 Leopoldamys
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Leopoldamys sabanus · UMMZ:mammals:174506
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMurinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ellerman 1947