Primus microps
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrimusPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Primus microps 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Primus microps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Primus microps and its relatives
MioceneWhere Primus microps and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Mammalia6 sites
- Primus cheemai6 sites
- Spanocricetodon5 sites
- Copemys4 sites
- Ctenodactylidae4 sites
- Prokanisamys4 sites
- Prokanisamys kowalskii4 sites
- Sciuridae4 sites
- Artiodactyla3 sites
- Cricetidae3 sites
- Democricetodon khani3 sites
- Marymus dalanae3 sites
- Myocricetodon tomidai3 sites
- Rhinocerotidae3 sites
- Sayimys3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Tragulidae3 sites
- Anthracotheriidae2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Eumyarion2 sites
- Fallomus2 sites
- Megacricetodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Primus microps, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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
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No picture of Primus microps was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Primus microps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPrimus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Bruijn et al. 1981