Microtoscoptes disjunctus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrotoscoptesPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Microtoscoptes disjunctus 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
9 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
4 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Drewsey Formation2
- Teewinot Formation1
- Chalk Butte Formation1
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The named rock units Microtoscoptes disjunctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microtoscoptes disjunctus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Microtoscoptes disjunctus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Dipoides stirtoni7 sites
- Archaeolaginae4 sites
- Camelidae4 sites
- Teleoceras4 sites
- Dinohippus spectans3 sites
- Epicyon haydeni3 sites
- Hypolagus vetus3 sites
- Spermophilus3 sites
- Vulpes stenognathus3 sites
- Anouroneomys magnus2 sites
- Diprionomys parvus2 sites
- Eucyon davisi2 sites
- Felidae2 sites
- Hesperogaulus wilsoni2 sites
- Hipparionini2 sites
- Indarctos oregonensis2 sites
- Lemoynea biradicularis2 sites
- Megatylopus2 sites
- Neohipparion leptode2 sites
- Perognathinae2 sites
- Peromyscus antiquus2 sites
- Pliosaccomys2 sites
- Pliosaccomys magnus2 sites
- Pliotaxidea nevadensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Microtoscoptes disjunctus, 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
4 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals5
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska2
- Carnivores and microtine-like rodents from a new late Miocene (Hemphillian) locality in north-central Nebraska1
- New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California1
Each of the 9 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 Microtoscoptes disjunctus 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 Microtoscoptes disjunctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microtoscoptes disjunctus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMicrotoscoptes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1937)