Palaeoscaptor acridens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeoscaptorPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
30 occurrences of Palaeoscaptor acridens 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
30 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
6 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation20
- Loh Formation4
- Aral Formation1
- Paoniuquan Formation1
- Ulantatal Formation1
- Keziletuogayi Formation1
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The named rock units Palaeoscaptor acridens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeoscaptor acridens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaeoscaptor acridens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Heosminthus chimidae16 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus16 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus16 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis15 sites
- Desmatolagus13 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis12 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex11 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus11 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus11 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus10 sites
- Cricetops dormitor10 sites
- Gobisorex kingae10 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis10 sites
- Heosminthus9 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae9 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis8 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius8 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis8 sites
- Erinaceidae8 sites
- Crocidosoricinae7 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis7 sites
- Heosminthus borrae7 sites
- Heosminthus minutus7 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Palaeoscaptor acridens, 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
7 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)24
- Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China1
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang1
- Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakstan1
- Fossil Erinaceidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Oligocene of Ulantatal, Alxa Zouqi, Nei Mongol1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
- New insectivores and ruminants from the Tertiary of Mongolia, with remarks on the correlation.1
Each of the 30 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 Palaeoscaptor acridens 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 Palaeoscaptor acridens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeoscaptor acridens 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 itPalaeoscaptor through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1924