Antesorex
No picture of Antesorex 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 Antesorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SoriciniPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Antesorex 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Antesorex 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.
Antesorex and its relatives
MioceneWhere Antesorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Accipitridae1 site
- Alluvisorex1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Arctonasua minima1 site
- Ardea1 site
- Balaercinae indet.1 site
- Bassariscus minimus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Brachycrus siouense1 site
- Brachypsalis obliquidens1 site
- Chalicotheriidae1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Copemys lindsayi1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
- Drepanomeryx falciformis1 site
- Dromomeryx borealis1 site
- Galliformes1 site
- Geomyoidea1 site
- Gregorymys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Antesorex, 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- Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska1
- Small mammals from the Miocene Batesland Formation of South Dakota1
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 Antesorex 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 Antesorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Antesorex 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 itSoricini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repenning 1967