Prokanisamys
No picture of Prokanisamys 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 Prokanisamys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizomyinaePBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
36 occurrences of Prokanisamys 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
36 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Prokanisamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prokanisamys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Prokanisamys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Copemys17 sites
- Sayimys17 sites
- Sciuridae14 sites
- Myocricetodon13 sites
- Diatomys8 sites
- Mammalia8 sites
- Mellalomys8 sites
- Primus cheemai8 sites
- Sindemys aguilari8 sites
- Galerix wesselsae7 sites
- Kanisamys7 sites
- Spanocricetodon7 sites
- Primus microps6 sites
- Punjabemys6 sites
- Ctenodactylidae5 sites
- Kochalia5 sites
- Tragulidae5 sites
- Antemus4 sites
- Cricetidae4 sites
- Democricetodon khani4 sites
- Kanisamys benjavuni4 sites
- Myocricetodon tomidai4 sites
- Rhinocerotidae4 sites
- Rhizomyinae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Prokanisamys, 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
4 references- Miocene rodent evolution and migration. Muroidea from Pakistan, Turkey and Northern Africa18
- Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome9
- Late Oligocene and Early Miocene Muroidea of the Zinda Pir Dome6
- Miocene small mammals from Jebel Zelten, Libya3
Each of the 36 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. 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 content0
No picture of Prokanisamys 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 Prokanisamys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prokanisamys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itRhizomyinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Bruijn et al. 1981