Pauromys

Pauromys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciuravidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya37 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

22 occurrences of Pauromys 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

22 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

14 formations

Devil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.68°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Pauromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pauromys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pauromys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

459 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pauromys, 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

16 references

Each of the 22 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Pauromys

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSciuravidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Troxell 1923