Paciculus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucricetodontinaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligocene — about 22 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29.5 Mya3.6 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

31 occurrences of Paciculus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

31 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

16 formations

Sharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.76°N, 101.93°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WSespe — 34.25°N, 118.96°WPeterson Creek Beds — 45.00°N, 113.60°WBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WWildcat Hills Beds — 41.70°N, 103.67°WLavaca Flats Beds — 42.80°N, 102.20°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WKishenehn — 48.93°N, 114.36°W

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The named rock units Paciculus 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.

Paciculus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paciculus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Paciculus, 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

18 references

Each of the 31 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. 6 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 Paciculus 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 Paciculus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1879