Megacricetodon

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CricetodontinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 215 occurrencesMiocene — about 215 of 215 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 215 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 22 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 21 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 21 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 20 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 19 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.9 Mya11.1 Mya23.5 Mya4.6 Mya

215 occurrences of Megacricetodon 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

215 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

22 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.61°N, 11.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EXiacaowan — 33.18°N, 118.22°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°EChetougou — 36.85°N, 102.05°EChetougou — 36.34°N, 102.82°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°ETuğlu — 40.42°N, 34.31°EVillatoro — 42.38°N, 3.67°WKeramaria — 38.31°N, 26.13°EAlcácer do Sal — 38.38°N, 8.52°WChâteauredon — 44.02°N, 6.22°ELower Bone Bed — 39.25°N, 8.68°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EAntonios — 40.50°N, 23.00°ESuosuoquan — 46.31°N, 88.02°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WSzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°EChryssavgi — 40.80°N, 23.08°ERyakia — 40.32°N, 22.42°ETudela — 42.02°N, 1.37°WDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Megacricetodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 168 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megacricetodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megacricetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Megacricetodon, 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

73 references

Each of the 215 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. 61 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 Megacricetodon 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 Megacricetodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megacricetodon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fahlbusch 1964)