Microspalax odessanus
No picture of Microspalax odessanus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Microspalax odessanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Microspalax odessanus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Microspalax odessanus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Microspalax odessanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Allocricetus1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Epimeriones1 site
- Erinaceus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Hipparion depereti1 site
- Hypolagus1 site
- Laophis crotaloides1 site
- Microspalax ex gr. odessanus1 site
- Ochotona1 site
- Oryctolagus1 site
- Parabos1 site
- Pliopetaurista1 site
- Prosomys1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Talpa1 site
- Testudo graeca1 site
- Titanochelon bacharidisi1 site
- Trischizolagus dumitrescuae1 site
- Trischizolagus maritsae1 site
- Trogontherium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Microspalax odessanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Remains of the mole-rat Microspalax odessanus Topachevski, from Karaburun (Greece, Macedonia) and the family Spalacidae1
- Prosomys insuliferus (Kowalski 1958) (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Poland and the European part of the USSR1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Microspalax odessanus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Microspalax odessanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Microspalax odessanus 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.