Pelomys

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Also called

groove-toothed swamp ratPBDB

Sits inside

MuridaePBDB

Diet

herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene10%
• Pliocene1%
• Pleistocene78%
• Holocene11%

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.

Where Pelomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Epimys (Aethomys)8 sites
• Tatera8 sites
• Crocidura7 sites
• Epimys (Mastomys)6 sites
• Otomys6 sites
• Saccostomus6 sites
• Lemniscomys5 sites
• Steatomys pratensis5 sites
• Thallomys5 sites
• Dasymys4 sites
• Miniopterus schreibersi4 sites
• Chiroptera3 sites
• Clarias3 sites
• Cryptomys hottentotus3 sites
• Elephantulus brachyrhynchus3 sites
• Epimys (Aethomys) kaiseri3 sites
• Mus3 sites
• Mus musculoides3 sites
• Suncus varilla3 sites
• Zelotomys3 sites
• Aepyceros melampus2 sites
• Alcelaphus buselaphus2 sites
• Capra hircus2 sites
• Chlorocebus aethiops2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pelomys, 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.

• Early and Middle Pleistocene environments and hominid biogeography; micromammalian evidence from Kabwe, Twin Rivers and Mumbwa Caves in central ZambiaAvery, 2003 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article4
• The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expeditionde Heinzelin, 1983 · Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales Series 8, Tervuren, Belgique1
• The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South AfricaKlein, 1977 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• The Prehistory of Eastern ZambiaPhillipson, 1976 · Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa1
• Fossil snakes from Olduvai,TanzaniaRage, 1973 · Fossil Vertebrates from Africa · book/book chapter1
• Upper Pliocene Rodentia, Lagomorpha and Insectivora (Mammalia) from the isle of Rhodes (Greece). I, II and III.de Bruijn et al., 1970 · Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B · journal article1

Each of the 9 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.

What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1852