Democricetodon mutilus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopemysPBDB
- 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 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
51 occurrences of Democricetodon mutilus 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
51 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group6
- Châteauredon Formation1
- Ville Formation1
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The named rock units Democricetodon mutilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Democricetodon mutilus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Democricetodon mutilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
553 taxa- Megacricetodon minor22 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis21 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus21 sites
- Heteroxerus20 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai18 sites
- Megacricetodon17 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis17 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri13 sites
- Blackia miocaenica12 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii12 sites
- Testudo12 sites
- Microdyromys11 sites
- Ophisaurus11 sites
- Soricidae11 sites
- Galerix10 sites
- Proscapanus sansaniensis10 sites
- Bransatoglis astaracensis9 sites
- Eumyarion medius9 sites
- Keramidomys carpathicus9 sites
- Megacricetodon bavaricus9 sites
- Anomalomys minor8 sites
- Copemys8 sites
- Galerix exilis8 sites
- Lacerta8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Democricetodon mutilus, 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
17 references- Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations)10
- Die Cricetiden und Sciuriden der oberen Süßwasser-Molasse von Bayerisch-Schwaben und ihre stratigraphische Bedeutung (The Cricetida and Sciurida of the Upper Suesswasser-Molasse (lower Middle Miocene) from Bavarian Schwaben and their stratigraphic significance)7
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))6
- Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)6
- Overview of the geology of the Levač basin and the fossil mammal and the fossil plants localities in the Sibnica area (Central Serbia)4
- Die Cricetiden (Mamm.) der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns (Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Bavaria)3
- Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon2
- Biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Fluviatile Untere Serie (Early and Middle Miocene) in the central part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin: implications for palaeoenvironment and climate2
- Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]2
- Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs de la fin du Miocène inférieur en Provence. Implications géologiques et paléogéographiques2
- Einmal Miozän und zurück – Zeitreise am Maurerkopf bei Edelbeuren1
- Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany)1
Each of the 51 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. 5 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.
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No picture of Democricetodon mutilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Democricetodon mutilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Democricetodon mutilus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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. (Fahlbusch 1964)