Cricetodon

Cricetodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CricetodontinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 114 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 109 of 114 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 114 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 13 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 24 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 11 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

114 occurrences of Cricetodon 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

114 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

11 formations

Keramaria — 38.31°N, 26.13°EXiacaowan — 33.18°N, 118.22°EAlfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°ESzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°ESoma — 38.62°N, 27.42°EAntonios — 40.50°N, 23.00°ESuosuoquan — 46.31°N, 88.02°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ECincevat — 40.11°N, 43.63°E

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The named rock units Cricetodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 97 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cricetodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cricetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

840 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Cricetodon, 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

48 references

Each of the 114 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. 36 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 Cricetodon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCricetodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1851