Megacricetodon minor
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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 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
54 occurrences of Megacricetodon minor 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
54 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
6 formations
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group4
- Córcoles Formation1
- Szurdokpüspöki Formation1
- Villatoro Formation1
- Chryssavgi Formation · Pro-Mygdonia Group1
- Alcácer do Sal Formation1
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The named rock units Megacricetodon minor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon minor and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon minor and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
511 taxa- Democricetodon mutilus22 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis20 sites
- Heteroxerus19 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai17 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis14 sites
- Microdyromys14 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii13 sites
- Ophisaurus13 sites
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi13 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus12 sites
- Soricidae12 sites
- Testudo11 sites
- Eumyarion medius10 sites
- Galerix10 sites
- Proscapanus sansaniensis10 sites
- Blackia miocaenica9 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri9 sites
- Lagopsis verus9 sites
- Micromeryx flourensianus8 sites
- Talpidae8 sites
- Aves7 sites
- Cepaea7 sites
- Cricetodon meini7 sites
- Democricetodon brevis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Megacricetodon minor, 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
21 references- Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations)19
- 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)7
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))6
- 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)4
- The faunal succession of the Bavarian Molasse reconsidered - correlation of the MN5 and MN6 faunas2
- Late Aragonian mammal sites of Cuesta del Rey (Duero Basin, Burgos, Spain)1
- The Middle Miocene insectivores from Hasznos (Hungary, Nógrád County)1
- Einmal Miozän und zurück – Zeitreise am Maurerkopf bei Edelbeuren1
- 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
- Rodents, insectivores and chiropterans (Mammalia) from the late Aragonian of Can Missert (Middle Miocene, Vallès-Penedès Basin, Spain)1
- Los yacimientos de vertebrados continentales del Aragoniense superior (Mioceno medio) de Toril, Cuenca de Calatayud-Daroca1
Each of the 54 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. 9 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 Megacricetodon minor 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 minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon minor 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. Lartet 1851