Metaphiomys

No picture of Metaphiomys 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 Metaphiomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThryonomyoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37.71 Mya27.3 Mya41.5 Mya22.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Metaphiomys 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

13 occurrences

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

4 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°ENsungwe — 8.93°S, 33.20°EAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°E

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The named rock units Metaphiomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaphiomys and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Metaphiomys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Metaphiomys, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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 Metaphiomys 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 Metaphiomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metaphiomys 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 itThryonomyoidea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1908