Chlorotalpa
Chlorotalpa is a genus of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It contains the following species:Duthie's golden mole Sclater's golden mole
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChrysochloridaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Chrysochloridae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Chrysochloridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chlorotalpa 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene72%
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 Chlorotalpa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chlorotalpa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chlorotalpa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Aves2 sites
- Cryptomys2 sites
- Dasymys2 sites
- Dendromus2 sites
- Elephantulus2 sites
- Epimys (Aethomys)2 sites
- Gorgopithecus major2 sites
- Graphiurus2 sites
- Macroscelides proboscideus2 sites
- Malacothrix2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Mystromys2 sites
- Otomys2 sites
- Parapapio angusticeps2 sites
- Praomys2 sites
- Rhabdomys2 sites
- Steatomys2 sites
- Tatera2 sites
- Zelotomys2 sites
- Achatina1 site
- Acomys1 site
- Adenota recki1 site
- Agapornis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chlorotalpa, 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- The Hunters of the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy1
- Some evidence of chronology and paleoecology of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai from the fossil Bovidae1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Chlorotalpa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Folder-Ubs6u!d
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Chlorotalpa sclateri · ummz:mammals:103549
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Chlorotalpa”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChrysochloridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roberts 1924