Megacricetodon bavaricus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegacricetodonPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
14 occurrences of Megacricetodon bavaricus 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
14 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
2 formations
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group2
- Châteauredon Formation1
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The named rock units Megacricetodon bavaricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon bavaricus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon bavaricus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Democricetodon mutilus9 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis8 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii7 sites
- Galerix5 sites
- Heteroxerus5 sites
- Ophisaurus5 sites
- Blackia miocaenica4 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis4 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus4 sites
- Lagopsis4 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai4 sites
- Bithynia3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Eulipotyphla3 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri3 sites
- Galerix exilis3 sites
- Gyraulus3 sites
- Lacertidae3 sites
- Miodyromys hamadryas3 sites
- Palaeocarassius3 sites
- Palaeosciurus3 sites
- Testudo3 sites
- Testudoolithidae3 sites
- Viperidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megacricetodon bavaricus, 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
10 references- Vertebrate microfossils from the Upper Freshwater Molasse in the Swiss Molasse Basin: Implications for the evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin during the Miocene Climate Optimum3
- Die Cricetiden und Sciuriden der oberen Süßwasser-Molasse von Bayerisch-Schwaben und ihre stratigraphische Bedeutung (The Cricetida and Sciurida of the Upper Suesswasser-Molasse (lower Middle Miocene) from Bavarian Schwaben and their stratigraphic significance)2
- Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs de la fin du Miocène inférieur en Provence. Implications géologiques et paléogéographiques2
- Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany)1
- Biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Fluviatile Untere Serie (Early and Middle Miocene) in the central part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin: implications for palaeoenvironment and climate1
- Les vertébrés du Miocène moyen de Contres (Loir-et-Cher, France)1
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))1
- Stratigraphy of Neogene mammals in Poland1
- Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)1
- The faunal succession of the Bavarian Molasse reconsidered - correlation of the MN5 and MN6 faunas1
Each of the 14 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
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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 bavaricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon bavaricus 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)