Saccostomus

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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.

Also called

pouched mousePBDB

Sits inside

MuridaePBDB

Diet

granivorePBDB

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene3%
• Pliocene56%
• Pleistocene31%
• Holocene9%

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.

Where Saccostomus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Giraffa jumae20 sites
• Libytherium maurusium19 sites
• Loxodonta exoptata18 sites
• Giraffa stillei17 sites
• Hylochoerus euilus16 sites
• Ceratotherium simum15 sites
• Hipparion15 sites
• Tatera15 sites
• Ceratotherium14 sites
• Rhinocerotidae14 sites
• Gazella13 sites
• Thallomys13 sites
• Tragelaphus12 sites
• Hyaenidae11 sites
• Parapapio ado11 sites
• Epimys (Aethomys)10 sites
• Hystrix10 sites
• Otomys10 sites
• Canis9 sites
• Epimys (Mastomys)9 sites
• Heterocephalus9 sites
• Hominidae9 sites
• Paracolobus9 sites
• Alcelaphini8 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Saccostomus, 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.

• Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern TanzaniaLeakey and Harris, 1987 · Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain18
• Early and Middle Pleistocene environments and hominid biogeography; micromammalian evidence from Kabwe, Twin Rivers and Mumbwa Caves in central ZambiaAvery, 2003 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article3
• Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, TanzaniaHarrison and Mbago, 1997 · Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London · book/book chapter2
• BovidaeGentry, 1978 · Evolution of African Mammals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts · book/book chapter2
• Structure of Nylsrley SavannaHuntley and Walker, 1982 · Ecology of Tropical Savannas, Huntley B.J.&B.H. Walker, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 19821
• Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African SuidaeHarris and White, 1979 · Transactions of the American Philosophical Society1
• Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part IGentry and Gentry, 1978 · Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History1
• The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South AfricaKlein, 1977 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• The Prehistory of Eastern ZambiaPhillipson, 1976 · Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa1
• Report on Test Excavations in a Prehistoric Pigment Mine near Postmasburg, North CapeBeaumont and Boshier, 1974 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• Fossil snakes from Olduvai,TanzaniaRage, 1973 · Fossil Vertebrates from Africa · book/book chapter1

Each of the 32 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.

What may have been alongside itMuridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1846