Chrysochloris

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Also called

Cape golden molePBDB

Sits inside

ChrysochloridaePBDB

Diet

insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Chrysochloridae

Life habit

fossorialPBDB, for Chrysochloridae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene26%
• Pliocene65%
• Holocene10%

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.

Where Chrysochloris and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Elephantulus5 sites
• Enhydriodon africanus5 sites
• Gazella5 sites
• Giraffa5 sites
• Hyaenidae5 sites
• Agriotherium africanum4 sites
• Anancus4 sites
• Bathyergidae4 sites
• Canidae4 sites
• Homiphoca capensis4 sites
• Homotherium4 sites
• Libytherium4 sites
• Lynx issiodorensis4 sites
• Mammuthus subplanifrons4 sites
• Muridae4 sites
• Osteichthyes4 sites
• Soricidae4 sites
• Aves3 sites
• Bathyergus3 sites
• Canis3 sites
• Ceratotherium3 sites
• Cetacea3 sites
• Chondrichthyes3 sites
• Damalacra neanica3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Chrysochloris, 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.

• New Golden Moles (Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae) from the Early Pliocene of South AfricaAsher and Avery, 2010 · Palaeontologia Electronica · journal article2
• Un nouveau rongeur Mystromys pocockei sp. nov. (Cricetinae) de Pliocene inferieur de Langebaanweg (Region du Cap, Afrique du Sud)Denys, 1991 · C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 313, Serie II:1
• Paleoecology of the late Tertiary fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa and a reinterpretation of their geological contextHendey, 1981 · Annals of the South African Museum1
• A new genus of late Tertiary penguin from Langebaanweg, South AfricaSimpson, 1979 · Annals of the South African Museum1
• The Pliocene fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South AfricaHendey, 1976 · Annals of the South African Museum · journal article1
• The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape ProvinceHendey, 1974 · Annals of the South African Museum · journal article1
• Excavations at the Gordon's Bay Shell Midden. South-Western Capevan Noten, 1974 · South African Archaeological Bulletin1
• A review of the geology and paleontology of the Plio/Pleistocene deposits at Langebaanweg, Cape ProvinceHendey, 1970 · Annals of the South African Museum1
• Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in the south-western Cape ProvinceHendey, 1969 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article1

Each of the 10 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.

What may have been alongside itChrysochloridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1799