Blarinini

Blarinini is a tribe of shrews of the subfamily Soricinae. The tribe contains ten genera, of which only Blarina and Cryptotis still exist today.

Blarinini

Writer danny · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SoricinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 180 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 180 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 180 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 128 of 180 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 27 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 89 occurrences16.3 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

180 occurrences of Blarinini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

180 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

21 formations

Rexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WReuver clay — 50.92°N, 6.82°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°ESheep Creek — 42.15°N, 103.70°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WLaverne — 36.80°N, 100.50°WHorned Toad — 35.30°N, 118.50°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WSappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WApolakkia — 36.08°N, 27.80°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WGlenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.95°WAlturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°W

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The named rock units Blarinini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Blarinini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Blarinini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,765 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 140 sites for Blarinini, 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

90 references

Each of the 180 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. 78 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 Blarinini

Credit
Writer danny
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Kretzoi 1965