Protophiomys algeriensis
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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 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Protophiomys algeriensis 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Protophiomys algeriensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protophiomys algeriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Anura2 sites
- Prepomonomys bogenfelsi2 sites
- Ranoidea2 sites
- Silicamys cingulatus2 sites
- Squamata2 sites
- Tufamys woodi2 sites
- Afrohypselodontus grandis1 site
- Afrohypselodontus minus1 site
- Amphisbaenia1 site
- Anomaluridae1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Anthropoidea1 site
- Arenagale calcareus1 site
- Bathyergoides1 site
- Biretia piveteaui1 site
- Bunohyrax1 site
- Colubroidea1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Efeldomys1 site
- Eorhynchocyon rupestris1 site
- Gaudeamus1 site
- Hyainailourinae1 site
- Insectivora1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protophiomys algeriensis, 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
3 references- Mammalia from the Lutetian of Namibia2
- Late Eocene Chrysochloridae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia1
- New Phiomorpha and Anomaluridae from the late Eocene of north-west Africa: phylogenetic implications1
Each of the 4 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 Protophiomys algeriensis 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 Protophiomys algeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protophiomys algeriensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Jaegar et al. 1985