Phenacophiomys occidentalis
No picture of Phenacophiomys occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Phenacophiomys occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhenacophiomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Phenacophiomys occidentalis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phenacophiomys occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phenacophiomys occidentalis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Phenacophiomys occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Birkamys korai2 sites
- Mubhammys atlanticus2 sites
- Neophiomys minutus2 sites
- Nonanomalurus parvus2 sites
- Paranomalurus riodeoroensis2 sites
- Argouburus minutus1 site
- Dakhlamys ultimus1 site
- Gaudeamus aslius1 site
- Gaudeamus hylaeus1 site
- Oromys zenkerellinopsis1 site
- Phiocricetomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phenacophiomys occidentalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Phenacophiomys occidentalis · DAK-Pto-035
No picture of Phenacophiomys occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Phenacophiomys occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhenacophiomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marivaux et al. 2017