Selenomys mimicus
No picture of Selenomys mimicus 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 Selenomys mimicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SelenomysPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Selenomys mimicus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Selenomys mimicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Selenomys mimicus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Selenomys mimicus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Cricetops dormitor7 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis5 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus5 sites
- Karakoromys decessus5 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus5 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis4 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae4 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens4 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus4 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus3 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius3 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus3 sites
- Tataromys plicidens3 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon3 sites
- Amphechinus2 sites
- Amphicynodon2 sites
- Ardynomys2 sites
- Asiavorator gracilis2 sites
- Desmatolagus2 sites
- Desmatolagus pusillus2 sites
- Desmatolagus robustus2 sites
- Didymoconida2 sites
- Didymoconus2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Selenomys mimicus, 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
4 references- Discovery of Cricetids (Rodentia, Mammalia) From Middle Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China5
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)4
- Preliminary Observations on the Oligocene Deposits and Mammalian Fauna from Alashan Zuoqi, Nei Monggol1
- Nine new rodents from the Oligocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 11 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 Selenomys mimicus 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 Selenomys mimicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Selenomys mimicus 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 itSelenomys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923