Heteroxerus

No picture of Heteroxerus 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 Heteroxerus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciuridaePBDB
Diet
granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 85 occurrencesOligocene — about 11 of 85 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 74 of 85 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 85 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 13 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 12 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

85 occurrences of Heteroxerus 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

85 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

10 formations

Lower Freshwater Molasse — 48.36°N, 9.87°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°EAlfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°EVillatoro — 42.38°N, 3.67°WDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°EAlcácer do Sal — 38.38°N, 8.52°W

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The named rock units Heteroxerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heteroxerus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Heteroxerus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

805 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Heteroxerus, 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

40 references

Each of the 85 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. 28 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

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No picture of Heteroxerus 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 Heteroxerus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehlin and Schaub 1951