Limnoecus compressus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LimnoecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Limnoecus compressus 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Limnoecus compressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Limnoecus compressus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Limnoecus compressus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Charina prebottae3 sites
- Plesiosminthus clivosus3 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens2 sites
- Dakotaophis greeni2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Miospermophilus2 sites
- Parahippus pawniensis2 sites
- Plesiosorex coloradensis2 sites
- Protomarctus optatus2 sites
- Salvadora paleolineata2 sites
- Acris1 site
- Alphagaulus vetus1 site
- Ambystoma minshalli1 site
- Amphicyon galushai1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Anchitheriinae1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Andrias matthewi1 site
- Angustidens vireti1 site
- Ansomys nevadensis1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Archaeolagus macrocephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Limnoecus compressus, 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
4 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Insectivora, Sciuridae, and Cricetidae from the Early Miocene Rosebud Formation in South Dakota1
- The Massacre Lake local fauna (Mammalia, Hemingfordian) from northwestern Washoe County, Nevada1
- Early Miocene rodents and insectivores from northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Limnoecus compressus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Limnoecus compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Limnoecus compressus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLimnoecus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1960)