Mojavemys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MojavemyinaePBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
31 occurrences of Mojavemys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
31 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
6 formations
- Barstow Formation22
- Hepburn's Mesa Formation2
- Colter Formation2
- Tesuque Formation2
- Mascall Formation2
- NS Caliente Formation1
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The named rock units Mojavemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mojavemys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mojavemys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Cupidinimus lindsayi15 sites
- Cupidinimus halli14 sites
- Copemys longidens13 sites
- Perognathus furlongi12 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis11 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis11 sites
- Perognathus minutus10 sites
- Tamias ateles9 sites
- Copemys barstowensis6 sites
- Copemys russelli6 sites
- Mioheteromyinae6 sites
- Miospermophilus6 sites
- Paradomnina relictus6 sites
- Copemys tenuis5 sites
- Archaeolaginae4 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Copemys4 sites
- Geomyoidea4 sites
- Zapodidae4 sites
- Aepycamelus3 sites
- Copemys pagei3 sites
- Lanthanotherium sawini3 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius3 sites
- Perognathinae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Mojavemys, 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
7 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals17
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA3
- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California3
- The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA2
- A New Subfamily of Geomyoid Rodents (Mammalia) and a Possible Origin of Geomyidae2
- The magnetochronology of Barstovian mammals in southwestern Montana and implications for the initiation of Neogene crustal extension in the northern Rocky Mountains2
- Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming2
Each of the 31 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 Mojavemys 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 Mojavemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mojavemys 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 itMojavemyinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindsay 1972