Galericinae

Gymnures, also called hairy hedgehogs or moonrats, are mammals belonging to the subfamily Galericinae, in the family Erinaceidae and the order Eulipotyphla. Gymnures may resemble rats but are not closely related; they are not rodents at all, but instead are closely related to hedgehogs, being their sister group within Erinaceidae. They are thought to have appeared in Eastern Asia before their closest relatives, and changed little from the original ancestor, which is thought to have been also the ancestor of the shrews.

Galericinae

Mark Bolnik · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErinaceidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 200 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 200 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 42 of 200 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 130 of 200 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 200 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 200 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 16 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 25 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 29 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 31 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya5.09 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

200 occurrences of Galericinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

200 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

41 formations

Brule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EHuadian — 43.00°N, 126.67°ERenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EKhaychin — 43.72°N, 99.93°EKeramaria — 38.31°N, 26.13°ETepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WOtay — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WApolakkia — 36.08°N, 27.80°EBou Hanifia — 35.30°N, 0.10°WLothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°EGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°EKizilirmak — 39.37°N, 33.73°EAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WSoma — 38.62°N, 27.42°EChilikty — 46.66°N, 57.33°E

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The named rock units Galericinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 134 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galericinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Galericinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,918 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 174 sites for Galericinae, 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

88 references

Each of the 200 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. 76 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 Galericinae

Credit
Mark Bolnik
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galericinae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Pomel 1848