Monosaulax curtus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonosaulaxPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Monosaulax curtus 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
13 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
6 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Olcott Formation2
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
- Fort Randall Formation1
- Colter Formation1
- Esmeralda Formation1
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The named rock units Monosaulax curtus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monosaulax curtus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Monosaulax curtus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Copemys longidens8 sites
- Mylagaulidae8 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis7 sites
- Merychippus insignis7 sites
- Parvericius montanus7 sites
- Aphelops megalodus6 sites
- Hipparionini6 sites
- Hypohippus osborni6 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni6 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum6 sites
- Teleoceras6 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus6 sites
- Aelurodon ferox5 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis5 sites
- Eucastor tortus5 sites
- Gomphotherium5 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus5 sites
- Metechinus amplior5 sites
- Parahippus cognatus5 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi5 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus5 sites
- Aepycamelus robustus4 sites
- Amphicyonidae4 sites
- Archaeolaginae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Monosaulax curtus, 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
8 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska4
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- Castoridae (Mammalia) from Stewart Valley Nevada and comparison to European Beavers1
- Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Railway Quarries local fauna (Miocene, Barstovian) of Nebraska1
- A new species of beaver (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the earliest Barstovian (Miocene) of Nebraska and the phylogeny of Monosaulax Stirton1
- Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming1
- A revision of the geology and paleontology of the Bijou Hills, South Dakota1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 13 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 Monosaulax curtus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monosaulax curtus, 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 itMonosaulax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Cook 1909)