Crocidurinae

The white-toothed shrews or Crocidurinae are one of three subfamilies of the shrew family Soricidae.

Crocidurinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
white-toothed shrewPBDB
Sits inside
SoricidaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 245 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 245 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 245 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 167 of 245 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 35 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 35 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 117 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

245 occurrences of Crocidurinae 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

245 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

16 formations

Makapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°ETatrot — 30.51°N, 77.26°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°EVarswater & Bredasdorp — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVogel River Series — 3.21°S, 35.19°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WLatamne — 35.13°N, 36.75°EApolakkia — 36.08°N, 27.80°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EValdeganga — 39.15°N, 1.67°WPinjor — 30.67°N, 76.89°E

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The named rock units Crocidurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 205 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crocidurinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crocidurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,734 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Crocidurinae, 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

103 references

Each of the 245 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. 91 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 Crocidurinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crocidurinae 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.

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. Milne Edwards 1874