Perognathus minutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerognathusPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Perognathus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
31 occurrences of Perognathus minutus 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
31 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
9 formations
- Barstow Formation14
- Dove Spring Formation6
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Torreya Formation2
- Crowder Formation2
- Esmeralda Formation1
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The named rock units Perognathus minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Perognathus minutus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Perognathus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Perognathus furlongi16 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi13 sites
- Cupidinimus halli12 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis10 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis10 sites
- Copemys longidens9 sites
- Miospermophilus9 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus9 sites
- Tamias ateles8 sites
- Copemys barstowensis6 sites
- Copemys dentalis6 sites
- Copemys tenuis6 sites
- Geomyoidea6 sites
- Leptocyon vafer6 sites
- Aepycamelus5 sites
- Archaeolaginae5 sites
- Camelidae5 sites
- Chiroptera5 sites
- Copemys pagei5 sites
- Copemys russelli5 sites
- Cupidinimus5 sites
- Dinohippus leardi5 sites
- Epicyon saevus5 sites
- Pliohippus tantalus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Perognathus minutus, 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
14 references- Small mammal fossils from the Barstow Formation, California10
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California5
- Two fossil accumulations in the Upper Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, CA2
- New early Barstovian (middle Miocene) vertebrates from the upper Torreya Formation, eastern Florida panhandle2
- Biostratigraphic relationships of Tertiary small vertebrates from Cajon Valley, San Bernardino County, California2
- Hemingfordian/Barstovian Land Mammal Age faunas in the central Mojave Desert, exclusive of the Barstow Fossil Beds2
- The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA1
- The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Cranial morphology of two Tertiary pocket mice, Perognathus and Cupidinimus (Rodentia, Heteromyidae)1
- Additonal rodents (Mammalia) from the Clarendonian (Miocene) of northcentral Nebraska and a review of Clarendonian rodent biostratigraphy of that area1
- Recent revisions to the Clarendonian faunal assemblage from the Avawatz Formation1
Each of the 31 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. 2 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
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No picture of Perognathus minutus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Perognathus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perognathus minutus 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.
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What may have been alongside itPerognathus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. James 1963