Mesomys
Mesomys is a genus of South American spiny rats in the family Echimyidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- spiny tree ratPBDB
- Sits inside
- EchimyidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Echimyidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Echimyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesomys on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Mesomys and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Mesomys and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Alouatta seniculus2 sites
- Ateles paniscus2 sites
- Caluromys lanatus2 sites
- Cervus gouazoubira2 sites
- Coendou prehensilis2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Cyclopes2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Eira barbara2 sites
- Lontra longicaudis2 sites
- Mazama americana2 sites
- Metachirus nudicaudatus2 sites
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla2 sites
- Nasua nasua2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Panthera onca2 sites
- Pecari tajacu2 sites
- Potos flavus2 sites
- Priodontes maximus2 sites
- Proechimys2 sites
- Puma concolor2 sites
- Sapajus apella2 sites
- Sciurus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesomys, 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
2 references- Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems Project1
- An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station1
Each of the 2 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 Mesomys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- This picture is a work by Antoine Baglan . Please credit this with : Picture : Antoine Baglan in the immediate vicini…
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mesomys 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mesomys”
- 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 itEchimyidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1845