Rhagamys orthodon

Quentin Scouflaire · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhagamysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Rhagamys orthodon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
18 occurrences- Pleistocene83%
- Holocene17%
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.
Rhagamys orthodon and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rhagamys orthodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Microtus (Tyrrhenicola) henseli17 sites
- Prolagus sardus17 sites
- Bufo viridis9 sites
- Nesiotites8 sites
- Bubo insularis7 sites
- Discoglossus6 sites
- Episoriculus corsicanus6 sites
- Lacerta6 sites
- Podarcis6 sites
- Speleomantes sp.6 sites
- "Colubrines" indet.5 sites
- Anura5 sites
- Cynotherium5 sites
- Discoglossus sardus5 sites
- Natrix5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Podarcis tiliguerta5 sites
- Pyrrhocorax5 sites
- Serpentes5 sites
- Aves4 sites
- Coluber4 sites
- Columba livia4 sites
- Natrix natrix4 sites
- Praemegaceros4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Rhagamys orthodon, 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
6 references- Plio-Pleistocene fossil vertebrates of Monte Tuttavista (Orosei, Eastern Sardinia, Italy), an overview9
- Biostratigraphy of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in Corsica and the role of man in the Holocene faunal turnover5
- An overview of the fossil turtles from Sardinia (Italy)1
- Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean1
- Upper Pleistocene Mammal Assemblage from Su Concali Quarry (Samatzai, Southern Sardinia, Italy)1
- Castiglione 3, un nouveau remplissage fosilifere d'age Pleistocene moyen dans le karst de la region d'Oletta (Haute-Corse)1
Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Rhagamys orthodon
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Quentin Scouflaire
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rhagamys orthodon 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 itRhagamys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hensel 1856)