Phenacomys

The genus Phenacomys is a group of North American voles. The genus name comes from the Greek for "imposter mouse."

Phenacomys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhenacomyiniPBDB
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 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 6 of 61 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 54 of 61 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 61 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences1.4 Mya129 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Phenacomys 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

61 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

7 formations

Glenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WCape Deceit — 66.60°N, 161.90°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WCrooked Creek — 39.00°N, 98.20°WWhidbey — 47.60°N, 122.60°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°W

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The named rock units Phenacomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phenacomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Phenacomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

610 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Phenacomys, 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

38 references

Each of the 61 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. 26 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 content2

Picture of Phenacomys

Credit
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam 1889