Proheteromys

Proheteromys

Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
Sits inside
MioheteromyinaePBDB
Diet
granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 31.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 15 of 52 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29.5 Mya16.3 Mya32.3 Mya4.8 Mya

52 occurrences of Proheteromys 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

52 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

24 formations

John Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.79°N, 119.58°WSespe — 33.78°N, 117.77°WSespe — 33.73°N, 117.72°WSespe — 33.59°N, 117.76°WSespe — 33.59°N, 117.61°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRunningwater — 42.70°N, 102.10°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WVaqueros — 33.75°N, 117.75°WParachucla — 30.20°N, 82.80°WParachucla — 30.00°N, 82.60°WZia Sand — 35.70°N, 107.00°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WTorreya — 30.30°N, 84.20°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCajon Valley Beds — 34.80°N, 117.00°WHector — 34.80°N, 117.00°WRosebud — 43.30°N, 102.50°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WMarks Head — 29.90°N, 82.10°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBranch Canyon — 34.90°N, 119.50°WReunion Creek Beds — 42.88°N, 101.35°WCoffee Mill Butte Beds — 42.55°N, 103.35°WLavaca Flats Beds — 42.80°N, 102.20°WSheep Creek — 42.15°N, 103.70°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°W

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The named rock units Proheteromys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proheteromys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Proheteromys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

488 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Proheteromys, 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

24 references

Each of the 52 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. 12 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 Proheteromys

Credit
Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Proheteromys floridanus · UF:VP:98966

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. Wood 1932