Miopetaurista

Miopetaurista is an extinct genus of flying squirrels in the family Sciuridae. Fossils of this genus have been found from the Miocene and Pliocene of Europe, Asia (China), and North America.

No picture of Miopetaurista 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 Miopetaurista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciuridaePBDB
Diet
granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 38 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 43 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.9 Mya3.55 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

43 occurrences of Miopetaurista 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

43 occurrences

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

5 formations

Xiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Miopetaurista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miopetaurista and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miopetaurista and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

812 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Miopetaurista, 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

24 references

Each of the 43 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. 12 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

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
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Specimen
Miopetaurista sp. · etmnh:34820

No picture of Miopetaurista 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 Miopetaurista, 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSciuridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1962