Promylagaulus riggsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PromylagaulusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Promylagaulus riggsi 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
11 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
8 formations
- Rosebud Formation2
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group2
- Monroe Creek Formation1
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Reunion Creek Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
- Wildcat Hills Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
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The named rock units Promylagaulus riggsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Promylagaulus riggsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Promylagaulus riggsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Proscalops secundus8 sites
- Gripholagomys lavocati7 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi7 sites
- Alwoodia5 sites
- Entoptychus grandiplanus5 sites
- Hitonkala macdonaldtau5 sites
- Paciculus nebraskensis5 sites
- Florentiamys4 sites
- Palaeocastor4 sites
- Proheteromys4 sites
- Protospermophilus4 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni3 sites
- Archaeolagus3 sites
- Archaeolagus primigenius3 sites
- Gregorymys formosus3 sites
- Nototamias quadratus3 sites
- Parallomys americanus3 sites
- Parvericius3 sites
- Schaubeumys3 sites
- Schizodontomys harkseni3 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus3 sites
- Arikareeomys skinneri2 sites
- Centetodon divaricatus2 sites
- Dikkomys matthewi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Promylagaulus riggsi, 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- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas5
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota3
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska2
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Promylagaulus riggsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Promylagaulus riggsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Promylagaulus riggsi 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.
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What may have been alongside itPromylagaulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McGrew 1941