Miomeryx
No picture of Miomeryx 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 Miomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeomerycidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
7 occurrences of Miomeryx 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Miomeryx 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.
Miomeryx and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Miomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Eucricetodon asiaticus4 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus4 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens4 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis3 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae3 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi3 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis3 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis3 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus3 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Argyromys aralensis2 sites
- Asiadelphis zaissanensis2 sites
- Cadurcodon ardynensis2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Cheloniidae2 sites
- Cricetops dormitor2 sites
- Crocidosoricidae indet.2 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius2 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis2 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi2 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex2 sites
- Desmatolagus youngi2 sites
- Eomys orientalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Miomeryx, 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
5 references- Oligocene - Early Miocene Ruminants from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia)3
- Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakstan1
- Some Oligocene Mammals from Chuching, Yunnan1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
- New ungulates from the Ardyn Obo Formation of Mongolia, with faunal list and remarks on correlation1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Miomeryx 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 Miomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miomeryx 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 itArchaeomerycidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1925