Protophiomys aegyptensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtophiomysPBDB
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 3.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Eocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Protophiomys aegyptensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Birket Qarun — 29.60°N, 30.60°E

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The named rock units Protophiomys aegyptensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protophiomys aegyptensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protophiomys aegyptensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protophiomys aegyptensis, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Protophiomys aegyptensis 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 Protophiomys aegyptensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protophiomys aegyptensis 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 itProtophiomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sallam et al. 2009