Trogomys
No picture of Trogomys 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 Trogomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MioheteromyinaePBDB
- Diet
- granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Trogomys 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Gering Formation2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Monroe Creek Formation1
- Tick Canyon Formation1
- Kramer Beds Formation1
- Crowder Formation1
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The named rock units Trogomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trogomys and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Trogomys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Herpetotherium youngi4 sites
- Camelidae3 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Castoridae2 sites
- Downsimus chadwicki2 sites
- Ekgmowechashala philotau2 sites
- Florentiamys tiptoni2 sites
- Geringia mcgregori2 sites
- Ochotonidae2 sites
- Palaeocastor2 sites
- Palaeolagus hypsodus2 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi2 sites
- Proharrymys fedti2 sites
- Proscalops secundus2 sites
- Proscalops tertius2 sites
- Protospermophilus2 sites
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Aletomeryx occidentalis1 site
- Alwoodia1 site
- Alwoodia harkseni1 site
- Amphechinus horncloudi1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Anura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Trogomys, 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
8 references- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the eastern portion of the Wildcat Ridge, western Nebraska2
- New rodent material from the John Day Formation (Arikareean, Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene) of Oregon1
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
- Rhinoceros in Lanfair Valley1
- Biostratigraphic relationships of Tertiary small vertebrates from Cajon Valley, San Bernardino County, California1
- Boron Local Fauna1
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota1
- A New Rodent Genus (Family Heteromyidae) from the Tick Canyon Formation of California1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Trogomys 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 Trogomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trogomys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMioheteromyinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reeder 1960