Paronychomys

Paronychomys is an extinct genus of Cricetidae that existed in Arizona during the Hemphillian period.

Paronychomys

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 13 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.1–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4 Mya4.7 Mya13 Mya900 ka

18 occurrences of Paronychomys 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

18 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

10 formations

Alkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WAlkali Canyon — 45.69°N, 120.18°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WTemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WBedrock Spring — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WWhite Narrows — 35.70°N, 115.20°WSevier — 38.58°N, 112.27°WEllensburg — 46.68°N, 120.67°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°W

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The named rock units Paronychomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paronychomys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paronychomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Paronychomys, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 Paronychomys

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNeotominae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacobs 1977