Zramys
No picture of Zramys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Zramys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Zramys 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
6 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
- Bou Hanifia Formation2
- Tafna? Formation1
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The named rock units Zramys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zramys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Zramys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Myocricetodon5 sites
- Progonomys cathalai4 sites
- Atlantoxerus3 sites
- Africanomys2 sites
- Galerix2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Irhoudia2 sites
- Microdyromys2 sites
- Anguidae1 site
- Antidorcas1 site
- Aves1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Discoglossidae1 site
- Erinaceidae1 site
- Ophidia1 site
- Paraethomys1 site
- Proboscidea1 site
- Prostrepsiceros1 site
- Protatera1 site
- Rana1 site
- Schizogalerix1 site
- Scolecophidia1 site
- Senoussimys hanifiae n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Soricidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Zramys, 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- Les rongeurs du miocene moyen et superieur du Maghreb3
- Découverte de nouveaux rongeurs dans la formation Miocène de Bou Hanifia (Algérie Occidentale)2
- Origines du peuplement mammalien en Afrique du Nord durant le Miocène terminal1
Each of the 6 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 Zramys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Zramys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zramys 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaeger and Michaux 1973