Paraphiomys pigotti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaphiomysPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Thryonomyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Thryonomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
10 occurrences of Paraphiomys pigotti on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
- Lothidok Formation2
- Upper Koru Series Formation · Kericho Phonolites Group1
- Legetet Formation1
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The named rock units Paraphiomys pigotti 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.
Paraphiomys pigotti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paraphiomys pigotti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
209 taxa- Diamantomys luederitzi5 sites
- Walangania africanus5 sites
- Afrocricetodon songhori4 sites
- Simonimys genovefae4 sites
- Afrohyrax championi3 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus3 sites
- Anasinopa leakeyi3 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi3 sites
- Kenyamys mariae3 sites
- Kichechia zamanae3 sites
- Limicolaria3 sites
- Myophiomys arambourgi3 sites
- Rhinocerotidae3 sites
- Vulcanisciurus africanus3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Afropithecus turkanensis2 sites
- Amphechinus2 sites
- Brochuchus2 sites
- Bunolistriodon2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Diamantomys2 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Paraphiomys pigotti, 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
8 references- Dental remains of Lower Miocene small rodents from Napak (Uganda): Afrocricetodontidae, Myophiomyidae, Kenyamyidae and Sciuridae.3
- New Catarrhine fossils from Moroto II, Early Middle Miocene (ca 17.5 Ma) Uganda1
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya1
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]1
- The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya1
- Miocene mammals, stratigraphy and environment of Muruarot Hill, Kenya1
- New Potassium-Argon Age Determinations Relevant to the Miocene Fossil Mammal Sequence in East Africa1
- Appendix II. On the Lower Miocene Vertebrates from British East Africa, collected by Dr. Felix Oswald1
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. 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 Paraphiomys pigotti 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 Paraphiomys pigotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraphiomys pigotti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itParaphiomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Andrews 1914