Aepyosciurus sp.
No picture of Aepyosciurus sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aepyosciurus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 4.16 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 774 ka.
2 occurrences of Aepyosciurus sp. on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aepyosciurus sp. 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.
Aepyosciurus sp. and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Aepyosciurus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Aepyosciurus orientalis1 site
- Bahomys sp.1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Canis longdanensis1 site
- Canis teilhardi1 site
- Chasmaporthetes1 site
- Coelodonta nihowanensis1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Eirictis robusta1 site
- Equus eisenmannae1 site
- Felis1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Hemibos gracilis1 site
- Hesperotherium sp.1 site
- Leptobos1 site
- Lynx shansius1 site
- Macaca anderssoni1 site
- Marmota1 site
- Meles teilhardi1 site
- Mustela1 site
- Nannocricetus1 site
- Nipponicervus longdanensis1 site
- Ochotona1 site
- Pachycrocuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aepyosciurus sp., 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
2 references- Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores1
- Early Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Longdan, Dongxiang, Gansu, China1
Each of the 2 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 Aepyosciurus sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aepyosciurus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Aepyosciurus sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.