Tillomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciuravidaePBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Tillomys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Bridger Formation3
- Wasatch Formation1
- Washakie Formation1
- Fowkes Formation1
- ? Tepee Trail Formation1
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The named rock units Tillomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tillomys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tillomys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Omomys carteri4 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus4 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus3 sites
- Microsyops elegans3 sites
- Nyctitherium serotinum3 sites
- Orohippus3 sites
- Paramyidae3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Apatemys bellus2 sites
- Bridgeremys pusilla2 sites
- Hyopsodus2 sites
- Hyopsodus lepidus2 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus2 sites
- Insectivora2 sites
- Miacidae2 sites
- Miacis parvivorus2 sites
- Microparamys minutus2 sites
- Mysops parvus2 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum2 sites
- Orohippus pumilus2 sites
- Paramys delicatus2 sites
- Pseudotomus robustus2 sites
- Reithroparamys2 sites
- Reithroparamys delicatissimus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tillomys, 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
7 references- Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene1
- Eocene fossil mammalia from the Sand Wash Basin, northwestern Moffat County, Colorado1
- Age and stratigraphic relationships of the Fowkes Formation, Eocene, of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah1
- Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming1
- West and Dawson, 19731
- Vertebrate paleontology of the Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming1
- The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming1
Each of the 7 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 Tillomys
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tillomys 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 itSciuravidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872