Paratarsomys
No picture of Paratarsomys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paratarsomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Paratarsomys 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
1 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
1 formation
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Paratarsomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paratarsomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paratarsomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Accipiter tachiro1 site
- Afrocricetodon songhori1 site
- Agamidae1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bathyergoides1 site
- Burtoa sp.1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Dendropithecus1 site
- Diamantomys luederitzi1 site
- Edouardia sp.1 site
- Epiphiomys1 site
- Gekkonidae1 site
- Gonaxis sp.1 site
- Gulella sp.1 site
- Hominoidea1 site
- Homorus sp.1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Insectivora1 site
- Krapfiella sp.1 site
- Limicolaria1 site
- Notocricetodon1 site
- Ophidia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paratarsomys, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Paratarsomys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paratarsomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paratarsomys 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.
Keep going
Everything alive alongside itCricetidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.