Millardia coppensi
Millardia is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae native to South Asia and Myanmar. It contains the following species:Sand-colored soft-furred rat Miss Ryley's soft-furred rat Kondana soft-furred rat Soft-furred rat

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Millardia coppensi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group5
- Sagantole Formation · Awash Group1
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The named rock units Millardia coppensi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Millardia coppensi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Millardia coppensi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Golunda gurai5 sites
- Kolpochoerus afarensis3 sites
- Millardia taiebi3 sites
- Tachyoryctes3 sites
- Tatera3 sites
- Oenomys2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Saidomys2 sites
- Tragelaphus2 sites
- Agriotherium1 site
- Anancus1 site
- Ardipithecus ramidus1 site
- Australopithecus afarensis1 site
- Bovini1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Ceratotherium1 site
- Colobinae1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Deinotherium1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Giraffa jumae1 site
- Giraffa stillei1 site
- Golunda sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Millardia coppensi, 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
4 references- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19733
- Late Pleistocene Homo and oldowan tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia1
- Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia1
- Les proboscidiens des grands gisements a hominides Plio-Pleistocenes d'Afrique orientale1
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 Millardia coppensi
- Source
- Wikipedia/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
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Millardia meltada · uf:mammals:30228
Smithsonian Open Access was 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, “Millardia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.