Microtinae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 9.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
56 occurrences of Microtinae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
56 occurrences- Miocene23%
- Pliocene43%
- Pleistocene31%
- Holocene4%
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
17 formations
- Good Creek Formation3
- Prolemais Formation3
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Drewsey Formation2
- Rexroad Formation2
- Ballard Formation2
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The named rock units Microtinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microtinae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Microtinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
681 taxa- Promimomys17 sites
- Microtoscoptes disjunctus9 sites
- Spermophilus9 sites
- Apodemus8 sites
- Mimomys8 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni7 sites
- Ochotona7 sites
- Aves6 sites
- Equus6 sites
- Mustelidae6 sites
- Platygonus6 sites
- Pliolemmus antiquus6 sites
- Thamnophis6 sites
- Camelidae5 sites
- Camelops5 sites
- Neocricetodon5 sites
- Perognathinae5 sites
- Proboscidea5 sites
- Sigmodon minor5 sites
- Sorex5 sites
- Talpa fossilis5 sites
- Taxidea taxus5 sites
- Teleoceras5 sites
- Allohippus stenonis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Microtinae, 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
28 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals9
- The succession of rodent faunas from the Mio/Pliocene lacustrine deposits of the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin (Greece)4
- Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities4
- Pliocene Volcanic Terrain of the South Caucasus: The Missing Link in Eurasian Palaeobiogeography3
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska3
- The Good Creek Formation, Pleistocene of Texas, and Its Fauna3
- Vertebrate fossils from the Meade Formation of southwestern Kansas3
- Plio-Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Central Turkey: new faunas and faunal records with comments on their biochronological position based on small mammals2
- Early Pliocene Bear Ursus thibetanus (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Priozernoe Locality in the Dniester Basin (Moldova Republic)2
- Carnivores and microtine-like rodents from a new late Miocene (Hemphillian) locality in north-central Nebraska2
- The sequence of Early Pleistocene small-mammal faunas from the South Russian Plain.2
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary2
Each of the 56 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. 16 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 Microtinae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Microtinae itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microtinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.