Repomys
Repomys is an extinct genus of Cricetidae that existed during the late Hemphillian and Blancan periods.
No picture of Repomys 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 Repomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GalushamyinaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
15 occurrences of Repomys 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
15 occurrences- Miocene47%
- Pliocene36%
- Pleistocene17%
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
10 formations
- Panaca Formation2
- Dove Spring Formation1
- Lower Arkose Unit Formation1
- Bedrock Spring Formation1
- Mt. Eden Formation1
- Horned Toad Formation1
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The named rock units Repomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Repomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Repomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Platygonus5 sites
- Borophagus4 sites
- Camelidae4 sites
- Hemiauchenia4 sites
- Paronychomys4 sites
- Perognathinae4 sites
- Agriotherium3 sites
- Antilocapridae3 sites
- Bassariscus3 sites
- Bensonomys3 sites
- Bensonomys arizonae3 sites
- Dinohippus3 sites
- Felinae3 sites
- Geomyidae3 sites
- Gomphotheriidae3 sites
- Hypolagus edensis3 sites
- Hypolagus ringoldensis3 sites
- Lepoides lepoides3 sites
- Megacamelus merriami3 sites
- Peromyscus3 sites
- Pleiolama vera3 sites
- Prodipodomys3 sites
- Scapanus3 sites
- Sigmodon minor3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Repomys, 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
11 references- Late Tertiary basins and vertebrate faunas along the Nevada-Utah border3
- Blancan, Irvingtonian, and Rancholabrean(?) land mammal age faunas from western Riverside County, California2
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska2
- Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene–Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns1
- Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary1
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California1
- Geologic history of the El Paso Mountains region1
- Middle Blancan vertebrate assemblage from the Verde Formation, Arizona1
- Small mammal fossils and correlation of continental deposits, Safford and Duncan basins, Arizona1
- New Evidence for the Age of the Mount Eden Fauna, Southern California1
- Repomys (Mammalia: Rodentia gen. nov.) from the Late Neogene of California and Nevada1
Each of the 15 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 Repomys 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 Repomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Repomys 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Repomys”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGalushamyina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. May 1981