Glossus (Glossus)

A picture published with the record for Glossus (Glossus).

Tim Johnson · CC BY 4.0 · 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.

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiocene — about 38 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 42 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

42 occurrences of Glossus (Glossus) 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

42 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

6 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Glossus (Glossus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glossus (Glossus) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Glossus (Glossus) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Glossus (Glossus), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

10 references

Each of the 42 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. 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 Glossus (Glossus)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Tim Johnson
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.