Galerix

Galerix is a prehistoric genus of gymnures. Fossils of these hedgehog-like creatures are found in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Galerix

Louis S. Leakey · CC0 · via GBIF. 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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.55 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 108 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 105 of 108 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 108 occurrencesPliocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 11 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.7–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.2–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya5.09 Mya27.8 Mya3 Mya

108 occurrences of Galerix 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

108 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

15 formations

Lower Manchar — 26.42°N, 67.83°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EChâteauredon — 44.02°N, 6.22°EAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WMost — 50.42°N, 13.36°ESoma — 38.62°N, 27.42°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WHarmanyazi — 38.37°N, 31.87°EHarmangazi — 38.37°N, 31.87°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Galerix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galerix and its relatives

Miocene

Where Galerix and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Galerix, 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

50 references

Each of the 108 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. 38 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 content2

Picture of Galerix

Source
GBIF
Credit
Louis S. Leakey
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Galerix sp. · wihg:wif/a:4698

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1848