Proodontomys cookei
No picture of Proodontomys cookei was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Proodontomys cookei firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Proodontomys cookei on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 Proodontomys cookei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proodontomys cookei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Proodontomys cookei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Acomys3 sites
- Amblysomus3 sites
- Cryptomys hottentotus3 sites
- Dasymys3 sites
- Dendromus3 sites
- Elephantulus3 sites
- Epimys (Aethomys)3 sites
- Graphiurus3 sites
- Mus3 sites
- Mystromys3 sites
- Otomys3 sites
- Praomys3 sites
- Rhabdomys3 sites
- Rhinolophus3 sites
- Steatomys3 sites
- Suncus varilla3 sites
- Diplomesodon2 sites
- Elephantulus brachyrhynchus2 sites
- Eptesicus2 sites
- Malacothrix2 sites
- Miniopterus2 sites
- Myosorex2 sites
- Pronolagus2 sites
- Rhinolophus clivosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proodontomys cookei, 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
2 references- Plio-Pleistocene fossil mammalian microfauna of southern Africa: a preliminary report including descriptions of two new fossil muroid genera (Mammalia: Rodentia)2
- The Makapansgat australopithecine environment1
Each of the 3 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 Proodontomys cookei was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Proodontomys cookei firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Proodontomys cookei 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 itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.