Megacricetodon gregarius
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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 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
14 occurrences of Megacricetodon gregarius 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
1 formation
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Megacricetodon gregarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon gregarius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon gregarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Anomalomys gaudryi4 sites
- Eumyarion latior4 sites
- Megacricetodon minor4 sites
- Copemys3 sites
- Democricetodon affinis3 sites
- Democricetodon minor3 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Albanensia albanensis2 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum2 sites
- Amphechinus2 sites
- Artiodactyla2 sites
- Blackia miocaenica2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Chelydropsis murchisoni2 sites
- Democricetodon brevis2 sites
- Democricetodon freisingensis2 sites
- Dinosorex pachygnathus2 sites
- Eurolagus2 sites
- Galerix socialis2 sites
- Glirulus conjunctus2 sites
- Hyotherium2 sites
- Leidymys2 sites
- Megacricetodon similis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megacricetodon gregarius, 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
7 references- Die Cricetiden (Mamm.) der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns (Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Bavaria)7
- Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations)2
- Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia)1
- Geologie und Paläontologie der Glimmersandgrube Helsighausen (Kt. Thurgau); Geology and paleontology of the mica-rich sand pit of Helsighausen (Canton Thurgau)1
- The faunal succession of the Bavarian Molasse reconsidered - correlation of the MN5 and MN6 faunas1
- Ein Gewöllrest mit Megacricetodon (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus dem Obermiozän von Öhningen (Baden-Württemberg)1
- On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part IV1
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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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megacricetodon gregarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon gregarius was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itMegacricetodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schaub 1925)