Mimomys taylori
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimomysPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Mimomys taylori 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
11 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mimomys taylori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mimomys taylori and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Mimomys taylori and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Ondatra minor7 sites
- Alilepus vagus6 sites
- Satherium piscinarium5 sites
- Peromyscus hagermanensis4 sites
- Canis lepophagus3 sites
- Marmotini3 sites
- Mimomys (Cosomys) primus3 sites
- Mustela rexroadensis3 sites
- Pliogeomys parvus3 sites
- Sminthosinis bowleri3 sites
- Thomomys3 sites
- Trigonictis macrodon3 sites
- Buisnictis breviramus2 sites
- Camelops2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Hypolagus edensis2 sites
- Hypolagus gidleyi2 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) fossilis2 sites
- Odocoileus2 sites
- Paracryptotis gidleyi2 sites
- Perognathus maldei2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens2 sites
- Prodipodomys idahoensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mimomys taylori, 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
6 references- Phyletic Trends in the Late Cenozoic Microtine Ophiomys gen. nov., from Idaho5
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- The first mid-Blancan occurrence of Agriotherium (Ursidae) in North America: a record from Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho1
- Small mammal fossils and correlation of continental deposits, Safford and Duncan basins, Arizona1
- Soricids (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Blufftop Local Fauna, Blancan Ringold Formation of Central Washington, and the Correlation of Ringold Formation Faunas1
- Late Cenozoic Microtine Rodents from Wyoming and Idaho1
Each of the 11 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 Mimomys taylori 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 Mimomys taylori, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mimomys taylori 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 itMimomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hibbard 1959)