Muscardinus pliocaenicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MuscardinusPBDB
- 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 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 2.245 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Muscardinus pliocaenicus 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
12 occurrences- Miocene24%
- Pliocene55%
- Pleistocene20%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Muscardinus pliocaenicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Muscardinus pliocaenicus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Muscardinus pliocaenicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Petenyia hungarica7 sites
- Glis minor6 sites
- Beremendia fissidens5 sites
- Mimomys5 sites
- Pliopetaurista5 sites
- Sciurus5 sites
- Sorex5 sites
- Tamias5 sites
- Amphidyromys pusillus4 sites
- Apodemus4 sites
- Baranogale helbingi4 sites
- Blackia4 sites
- Blarinoides mariae4 sites
- Deinsdorfia4 sites
- Elaphe4 sites
- Erinaceus4 sites
- Rana4 sites
- Sorex bor4 sites
- Talpa minor4 sites
- Alloblarinella europaea3 sites
- Anguis fragilis3 sites
- Asoriculus gibberodon3 sites
- Cricetus3 sites
- Eliomys intermedius3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Muscardinus pliocaenicus, 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
9 references- The Pliocene and Pleistocene Gliridae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Poland3
- Plio-Pleistocene biogeography of Italian mainland micromammals2
- Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Upper Pliocene of Tegelen (province of Limburg, The Netherlands)1
- The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at the Turolian-Ruscinian Boundary (Neogene). 1. General Introduction1
- Gundersheim-Findling, a Ruscinian rodent fauna of Asian affinities from Germany.1
- Rodentia (Mammalia) des Eichkogels bei Mödling (Niederösterreich) 1. Spalacinae und Castoridae 2. Übersicht über die gesamte Nagetierfauna.1
- Les Formations continentales du Neogene superieur des vallees du Jucar et du Cabriel au ne d'Albacete (Espagne). Biostratigraphie et environment.1
- Montousse 5 (Hautes Pyrenees), un nouveau remplissage de fissure a faune de vertebres du Pleistocene Inferieur1
- On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part II1
Each of the 12 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.
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No picture of Muscardinus pliocaenicus 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 Muscardinus pliocaenicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Muscardinus pliocaenicus 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 itMuscardinus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kowalski 1963