Peromyscus

Peromyscus is a genus of rodents. They are commonly referred to as deer mice or deermice, not to be confused with the chevrotain or "mouse deer". They are New World mice only distantly related to the common house and laboratory mouse, Mus musculus.

Peromyscus

Seney Natural History Association · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
deer mousePBDB
Sits inside
PeromysciniPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 310 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 310 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 310 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 245 of 310 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 50 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 192 occurrences12.5 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

310 occurrences of Peromyscus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

310 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

40 formations

"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WGila Conglomerate — 32.90°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.69°N, 109.45°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 39.00°N, 98.20°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WTecopa Lake Beds — 36.10°N, 117.90°WTecopa Lake Beds — 36.00°N, 116.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WChalk Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WRattlesnake — 44.50°N, 119.30°WCoal Valley — 39.00°N, 119.20°WThousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WBedrock Spring — 34.80°N, 117.00°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Peromyscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 203 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peromyscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Peromyscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,690 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 251 sites for Peromyscus, and this reads 240 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

146 references

Each of the 310 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. 134 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 Peromyscus

Credit
Seney Natural History Association
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peromyscus 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gloger 1841