Paramyidae

Paramyidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 15 of 126 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 111 of 126 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 126 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 10 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 10 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya39.7 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

126 occurrences of Paramyidae 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

126 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

30 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WArshanto — 43.65°N, 111.98°EArshanto — 43.33°N, 111.76°EGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WIrdin Manha — 43.33°N, 111.76°EIrdin Manha — 43.77°N, 112.10°EWutu — 36.52°N, 118.92°ESan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WGalisteo — 35.50°N, 106.20°WLas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WUpper Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°Wtop of Lower Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°W

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The named rock units Paramyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paramyidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paramyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

975 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Paramyidae, 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

48 references

Each of the 126 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. 36 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 content2

Picture of Paramyidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Paramyidae indet. · CM:VertPaleo:79266

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Miller and Gidley 1918