Myomimus roachi
The Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse or ground dormouse, also known simply as the mouse-tailed dormouse, is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is found in Bulgaria, European Turkey, and Greece.
Demhafeta123 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- Mouse-tailed dormousePBDB
- Sits inside
- MyomimusPBDB
- 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 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.
10 occurrences of Myomimus roachi 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene59%
- Holocene10%
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.
Myomimus roachi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Myomimus roachi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Apodemus6 sites
- Mimomys6 sites
- Apodemus mystacinus5 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus3 sites
- Bufo viridis3 sites
- Microtus3 sites
- Pliomys3 sites
- Rana3 sites
- Sciurus3 sites
- Spalax3 sites
- Arvicola2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Cricetulus migratorius2 sites
- Dryomys nitedula2 sites
- Eliomys2 sites
- Jordanomys majori2 sites
- Meriones2 sites
- Mesocricetus2 sites
- Microtus guentheri2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Pelobates2 sites
- Pelobates syriacus2 sites
- Rhagapodemus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Myomimus roachi, 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- The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece4
- Review of the late Turolian to early Biharian mammal faunas from Greece and Turkey2
- The Early Biharian rodent fauna from Tourkoubounia 21
- The dental pattern of the Dormice Dryomys, Myomimits, Microdymmys and Peridyromys1
- Eine Mittelpleistozäne Nager-Fauna von der Insel Chios, Ägais (Mammalia, Rodentia)1
- The small mammals of the Guela Cave1
Each of the 10 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 content2
Picture of Myomimus roachi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Demhafeta123
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Myomimus roachi · smf:77286
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyomimus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bate 1937