Microparamys perfossus
No picture of Microparamys perfossus 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 Microparamys perfossus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicroparamysPBDB
- 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 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Microparamys perfossus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microparamys perfossus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microparamys perfossus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Microparamys perfossus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Adjidaumo minutus2 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites2 sites
- Litoyoderimys lustrorum2 sites
- Pseudocylindrodon neglectus2 sites
- Quadratomus gigans2 sites
- Agriochoerus antiquus1 site
- Apternodus iliffensis1 site
- Centetodon chadronensis1 site
- Colodon stovalli1 site
- Eutypomys inexpectatus1 site
- Hendryomeryx defordi1 site
- Hyracodon primus1 site
- Mesohippus texanus1 site
- Simimys1 site
- Viejadjidaumo magniscopuli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microparamys perfossus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area2
- Early Tertiary vertebrate faunas, Vieja Group Trans-Pecos Texas: Rodentia1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Microparamys perfossus 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 Microparamys perfossus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microparamys perfossus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itMicroparamys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1974