Mystromys

No picture of Mystromys 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 Mystromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MystromyinaePBDB
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 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 21 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Mystromys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

21 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

4 formations

Makapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°E

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The named rock units Mystromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mystromys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mystromys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mystromys, 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

13 references

Each of the 21 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Mystromys 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 Mystromys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mystromys 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1841