Microsorex pratensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SorexPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.4 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Microsorex pratensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Microsorex pratensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microsorex pratensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Microsorex pratensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Microtus paroperarius3 sites
- Mictomys meltoni3 sites
- Ondatra annectens3 sites
- Sorex cinereus3 sites
- Blarina brevicauda2 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Cudahyomys moorei2 sites
- Microtus meadensis2 sites
- Neosorex lacustris2 sites
- Parageomys tobinensis2 sites
- Peromyscus cragini2 sites
- Sorex cudahyensis2 sites
- Sorex megapalustris2 sites
- Spermophilus tridecemlineatus2 sites
- Urocitellus richardsonii2 sites
- Zapus sandersi2 sites
- Allogona profunda1 site
- Amblystoma maculatum1 site
- Ambystoma tigrinum1 site
- Antilocapridae1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Canis edwardii1 site
- Carychium1 site
- Cionella lubrica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microsorex pratensis, 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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Dalquest and Schultz, 19921
- Stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of Pleistocene deposits of southwestern Kansas1
Each of the 3 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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No picture of Microsorex pratensis 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 Microsorex pratensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microsorex pratensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSorex through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hibbard 1944)