Heterosorex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterosoricinaePBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
23 occurrences of Heterosorex 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Calcaires de Vacheres Formation2
- Ville Formation1
- Detritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats Formation1
- Tagay Khalagay Formation1
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The named rock units Heterosorex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterosorex and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heterosorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
516 taxa- Pseudotheridomys7 sites
- Alilepus5 sites
- Anomalomys minor5 sites
- Anourosorex oblongus5 sites
- Blackia miocaenica5 sites
- Brachyrhizomys5 sites
- Bransatoglis astaracensis5 sites
- Chamaeleonidae5 sites
- Colubridae5 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri5 sites
- Ictitherium5 sites
- Laccopithecus robustus5 sites
- Lacertidae5 sites
- Martes5 sites
- Muntiacus5 sites
- Neocricetodon5 sites
- Parapodemus5 sites
- Plesiodimylus chantrei5 sites
- Plesiosorex5 sites
- Potamochoerus5 sites
- Pseudaelurus5 sites
- Pseudopus5 sites
- Selenoportax5 sites
- Sivaonyx bathygnathus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Heterosorex, 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
16 references- Insectivores (Mammalia: Erinaceidae, Soricidae, Talpidae) from the Lufeng hominoid locality, Late Miocene of China5
- Overview of the geology of the Levač basin and the fossil mammal and the fossil plants localities in the Sibnica area (Central Serbia)3
- Nouveaux gisements a micromammiferes et mollusques continentaux dans l'Oligocene moyen du synclinal d'Apt (Vaucluse, sud-est de la France)2
- Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe1
- Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report1
- Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha; Mammalia)from Karydia and Komotini (Thrace, Greece; MN 4/5)1
- Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Ramblian of the Daroca-Calamocha area1
- Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)]1
- Insectivora (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Belchatow in Poland. II. Soricidae Fischer von Waldheim, 18171
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))1
- Heterosoricidae und Soricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands1
- The mammals of the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part. 5. The insectivores1
Each of the 23 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. 4 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 content0
No picture of Heterosorex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterosorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itHeterosoricinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaillard 1915