Mus

Mus is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus.

Mus

Unknown author Unknown author (original) / Ilmari Karonen (editing) · Public Domain · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
house mousePBDB
Sits inside
MurinaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 118 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 118 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 68 of 118 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 27 of 118 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 51 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

118 occurrences of Mus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

118 occurrences

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

13 formations

Tatrot — 30.51°N, 77.26°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EPinjor — 30.70°N, 76.88°EChoremi — 37.38°N, 22.09°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EShungura — 5.06°N, 36.03°EHadar — 11.10°N, 40.57°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°E

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The named rock units Mus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,400 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Mus, 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

68 references

Each of the 118 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. 56 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Mus

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author (original) / Ilmari Karonen (editing)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

The description on this site

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 itMurinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758