Lignimus montis
No picture of Lignimus montis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Lignimus montis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LignimusPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Lignimus montis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Wood Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Lignimus montis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lignimus montis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lignimus montis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Copemys longidens6 sites
- Hesperolagomys fluviatilis6 sites
- Parvericius montanus6 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis5 sites
- Eucastor tortus5 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni5 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi5 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus5 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis4 sites
- Mylagaulidae4 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum4 sites
- Scalopoides4 sites
- Schaubeumys cartomylos4 sites
- Tregomys4 sites
- Alluvisorex3 sites
- Bassariscus antiquus3 sites
- Blastomeryx gemmifer3 sites
- Bufo valentinensis3 sites
- Charina prebottae3 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis3 sites
- Florentiamyidae3 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus3 sites
- Lampropeltis similis3 sites
- Leptocyon vafer3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lignimus montis, 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- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska4
- Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska1
- New rodents and lagomorphs from the upper Miocene Wood Mountain Formation of southern Saskatchewan1
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 content0
No picture of Lignimus montis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Lignimus montis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lignimus montis 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 itLignimus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Storer 1970