Theridomys

Theridomys

Alistair I. Spearing Ortiz · 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
TheridomyinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Theridomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theridomyidae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 15 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 38 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37.71 Mya27.3 Mya41.5 Mya22.5 Mya

53 occurrences of Theridomys 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

53 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

9 formations

Villarrosano — 40.53°N, 1.02°WVillarrosano — 40.58°N, 1.27°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ECalcaires de Vacheres — 43.87°N, 5.52°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°ECalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°EViens Marl — 43.93°N, 5.68°EUnidad Detritica Inferior — 40.05°N, 2.79°WCalcaries de Tàrrega — 41.65°N, 1.17°E

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The named rock units Theridomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Theridomys and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Theridomys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Theridomys, 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

21 references

Each of the 53 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. 9 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 Theridomys

Credit
Alistair I. Spearing Ortiz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Theridomys 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jourdan 1837