Mytonomys burkei
No picture of Mytonomys burkei 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 Mytonomys burkei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MytonomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mytonomys burkei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mytonomys burkei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mytonomys burkei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mytonomys burkei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Leptoreodon stocki3 sites
- Protylopus robustus3 sites
- Amynodon advenus2 sites
- Boidae2 sites
- Dyseolemur pacificus2 sites
- Griphomys alecer2 sites
- Lacertilia2 sites
- Proterixoides davisi2 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus2 sites
- Protylopus stocki2 sites
- Sespedectes singularis2 sites
- Simimys simplex2 sites
- Tapochoerus egressus2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Amynodon1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Boavus occidentalis1 site
- Dichobunidae1 site
- Eohaplomys matutinus1 site
- Eohaplomys serus1 site
- Herpetotherium knighti1 site
- Iguanidae1 site
- Isectolophidae1 site
- Macrotarsius roederi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mytonomys burkei, 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
2 references- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California2
- Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Mytonomys burkei 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 Mytonomys burkei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mytonomys burkei 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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What may have been alongside itMytonomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1940)