Myodes

Clethrionomys is a genus of small, slender voles. In recent years the genus name was changed to Myodes, however a 2019 paper found that Myodes was actually a junior synonym for Lemmus, thus making it unusable. As such, Clethrionomys is re-established as the proper genus name. At the same time, several species were moved to the genus Craseomys, so members of both genera are referred to as red-backed voles. This genus was described by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel under the pseudonym "G. Tilesius". Some authors cite the taxonomic authority as "Gistel, 1850", whereas others still use "Tilesius, 1850".

Myodes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyodiniPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 174 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 174 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 168 of 174 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 174 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

174 occurrences of Myodes 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

174 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

7 formations

Cromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.42°N, 1.72°ESappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°WFratesti — 44.17°N, 24.53°EWeybourne Crag — 52.94°N, 1.27°ENorwich Crag — 52.53°N, 1.59°E

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The named rock units Myodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myodes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Myodes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,085 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 166 sites for Myodes, 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

64 references

Each of the 174 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. 52 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 content3

Picture of Myodes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Myodes gapperi · uf:mammals:23963

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itMyodini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pallas 1811