Amphechinus

Amphechinus

Louis S. Leakey · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphechininiPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.245 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 104 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 63 of 104 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 104 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 16 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 16 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 18 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 12 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.3–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya2.245 Mya38.4 Mya1.1 Mya

104 occurrences of Amphechinus 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

104 occurrences

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

24 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 101.62°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.10°ELoh — 45.50°N, 101.97°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.01°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°EAral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EAral — 46.78°N, 60.50°EXianshuihe — 35.15°N, 105.11°EXianshuihe — 36.46°N, 104.16°EMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WLegetet — 0.18°S, 35.27°ERenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WWulanbulage — 39.83°N, 108.73°EHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WSplit Rock — 40.10°N, 106.90°WUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°ELower Freshwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°EErgilin Dzo — 43.75°N, 111.92°EUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°EChilikty — 46.66°N, 57.33°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°ESuosuoquan — 46.66°N, 88.34°ETieersihabahe — 46.68°N, 88.48°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°EJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°W

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The named rock units Amphechinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphechinus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Amphechinus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,029 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Amphechinus, 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

39 references

Each of the 104 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Amphechinus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Louis S. Leakey
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amphechinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itAmphechinini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aymard 1850