Pareumys grangeri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PareumysPBDB
- 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.
23 occurrences of Pareumys grangeri 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
23 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
4 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group18
- Uinta Formation3
- Washakie Formation1
- Mission Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Pareumys grangeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pareumys grangeri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pareumys grangeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Sciuravus powayensis18 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni14 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti14 sites
- Microparamys minutus14 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus13 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki13 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus13 sites
- Washakius woodringi10 sites
- Batodonoides powayensis9 sites
- Centetodon aztecus9 sites
- Peradectes9 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens8 sites
- Glyptosaurinae6 sites
- Omomys carteri6 sites
- Chiroptera5 sites
- Leptoreodon major5 sites
- Parasauromalus olseni5 sites
- Protoreodon parvus5 sites
- Centetodon bembicophagus4 sites
- Iguanidae4 sites
- Nyctitherium4 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum4 sites
- Omomyidae4 sites
- Primates4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pareumys grangeri, 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
5 references- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California10
- Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County9
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Upper Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrate Localities in the Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah, With Comments on Uintan Biostratigraphy2
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming1
- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah1
Each of the 23 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
Media content1

Picture of Pareumys grangeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Pareumys grangeri 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. Burke 1935