Palaeoscaptor tenuis
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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.
16 occurrences of Palaeoscaptor tenuis 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
16 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Palaeoscaptor tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeoscaptor tenuis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaeoscaptor tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Tsaganomys altaicus13 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae12 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens12 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis11 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus9 sites
- Heosminthus9 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis9 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus9 sites
- Desmatolagus8 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus7 sites
- Gobisorex kingae7 sites
- Heosminthus borrae7 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis6 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus6 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius6 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis6 sites
- Heosminthus minutus6 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi6 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon6 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae6 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus5 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi5 sites
- Huangomys frequens5 sites
- Ninamys kazimierzi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Palaeoscaptor tenuis, 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
2 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)15
- 4. Marsupialia, Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia)1
Each of the 16 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
Media content0
No picture of Palaeoscaptor tenuis 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 tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeoscaptor tenuis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Ziegler et al. 2007