Yatkolamys edwardsi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YatkolamysPBDB
- 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 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Yatkolamys edwardsi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Yatkolamys edwardsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yatkolamys edwardsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Yatkolamys edwardsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Mesogaulus paniensis3 sites
- Oreolagus nebrascensis3 sites
- Stratimus strobeli3 sites
- Harrymys magnus2 sites
- Merychyus2 sites
- Mesoscalops scopelotemos2 sites
- Parvericius montanus2 sites
- Plesiosminthus clivosus2 sites
- Protospermophilus2 sites
- Scalopoides isodens2 sites
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Allomyinae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Blastomeryx1 site
- Bouromeryx1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cyprinodontiformes1 site
- Desmatolagus schizopetrus1 site
- Entelodontidae1 site
- Equidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Yatkolamys edwardsi, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna: Early Miocene (Hemingfordian), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatechewan1
- A new genus of cricetid rodent from the Hemingfordian (Miocene) of Nebraska1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Yatkolamys edwardsi
- 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 Yatkolamys edwardsi 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 itYatkolamys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin and Corner 1980