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Paramys ✝

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Description

Paramys is an extinct genus of rodents from North America, Europe, and Asia. It is one of the oldest genera of rodents known and probably lived in trees. While the genus name literally means "like a mouse", it coexisted with Thisbemys, a similar rodent, thus yielding a reference to Pyramus and Thisbe.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4828164	https://www.gbif.org/species/4828164
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41408	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41408

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Ischyromyidae : Paramys

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
family	Ischyromyidae	Alston 1876
genus	Paramys	Leidy 1871

Scientific Name

Paramys Leidy, 1871

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1871

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paramys	genus	belongs to Ischyromyidae	stated without evidence	Leidy, 1871
Paramys	genus	belongs to Sciuridae	stated with evidence	Leidy, 1873
Paramys	genus	belongs to Ischyromyidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Paramys	genus	belongs to Ischyromyidae	stated with evidence	Peterson, 1919
Paramys	genus	belongs to Ischyromyidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Paramys	genus	belongs to Paramyidae	stated without evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.8 - 55.8 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramys

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Paramys adamus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.8 Ma Paleocene	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Paramys compressidens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	46.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Paramys copei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		116	55.8 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Paramys delicatior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	50.3 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Paramys delicatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Paramys dispar ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Paramys excavatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		78	56.8 Ma Paleocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Paramys hunti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Paramys lemoinei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paramys leptodus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Paramys obailensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Paramys pattersoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paramys pourcyensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Paramys pycnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Paramys savagei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Paramys simpsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paramys taurus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		46	56.8 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Sciuravus undans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Thisbemys nini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Paramys Leidy
1873	Paramys Leidy p. 335
1902	Paramys Hay p. 723
1919	Paramys Peterson p. 60
1997	Paramys McKenna and Bell
2012	Paramys Rose et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Leidy J. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1, 1-358

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Peterson O. A. (1919) Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912, Annals of Carnegie Museum 12 2, 40-168

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1871 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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