Mesogaulus paniensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesogaulusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Mesogaulus paniensis 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Runningwater Formation6
- Pawnee Creek Formation2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Troublesome Formation1
- Marsland Formation · Hemingford Group1
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The named rock units Mesogaulus paniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesogaulus paniensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mesogaulus paniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Oreolagus nebrascensis7 sites
- Mesoscalops scopelotemos6 sites
- Archaeolagus5 sites
- Stratimus strobeli5 sites
- Harrymys magnus4 sites
- Parvericius montanus4 sites
- Plesiosminthus clivosus4 sites
- Scalopoides isodens4 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis3 sites
- Miospermophilus3 sites
- Proheteromys3 sites
- Protospermophilus3 sites
- Schizodontomys amnicolus3 sites
- Yatkolamys edwardsi3 sites
- Anchitheriomyinae2 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Euroxenomys2 sites
- Euroxenomys wilsoni2 sites
- Fanimus ultimus2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Merychyus2 sites
- Merychyus elegans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mesogaulus paniensis, 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
6 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas6
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska1
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska1
- Lewis, 19691
- Early Miocene rodents and insectivores from northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Mesogaulus paniensis · amnh:fm:65511
No picture of Mesogaulus paniensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mesogaulus paniensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMesogaulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1902)