Rhizomyinae

The rodent subfamily Rhizomyinae includes the Asian bamboo rats and certain of the African mole-rats. The subfamily is grouped with the Spalacinae and the Myospalacinae into a family of fossorial muroid rodents basal to the other Muroidea.

Rhizomyinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpalacidaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 94 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 94 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 94 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 94 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

94 occurrences of Rhizomyinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

94 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

10 formations

Lower Manchar — 26.42°N, 67.83°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°EChitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EMaradah — 28.50°N, 20.00°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°ETatrot — 30.51°N, 77.26°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Rhizomyinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizomyinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhizomyinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

732 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Rhizomyinae, 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

37 references

Each of the 94 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 Rhizomyinae

Credit
Roadnottaken
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhizomyinae 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller and Gidley 1918)