Paracryptotis rex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacryptotisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
6 occurrences of Paracryptotis rex 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pliocene54%
- Pleistocene30%
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 Paracryptotis rex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracryptotis rex and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Paracryptotis rex and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Mimomys (Ogmodontomys) poaphagus3 sites
- Onychomys gidleyi3 sites
- Agkistrodon2 sites
- Bassariscus casei2 sites
- Brachyopsigale dubius2 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Buisnictis breviramus2 sites
- Canis lepophagus2 sites
- Coluber constrictor2 sites
- Crotalus viridis2 sites
- Elaphe obsoleta2 sites
- Felis rexroadensis2 sites
- Heterodon plionasicus2 sites
- Hypolagus2 sites
- Hypolagus regalis2 sites
- Hypolagus ringoldensis2 sites
- Lampropeltis2 sites
- Lampropeltis getulus2 sites
- Liomys centralis2 sites
- Mustela rexroadensis2 sites
- Nekrolagus progressus2 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) quadriplicata2 sites
- Nerodia2 sites
- Notiosorex jacksoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paracryptotis rex, 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
6 references- Early Pliocene (Blancan) Always Welcome Inn local fauna, Baker City, Oregon1
- Soricids (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Blufftop Local Fauna, Blancan Ringold Formation of Central Washington, and the Correlation of Ringold Formation Faunas1
- Early Blancan mammals of the Beck Ranch local fauna of Texas1
- The Insectivores of the Hagerman Local Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Idaho1
- Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae1
- Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas1
Each of the 6 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 Paracryptotis rex was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paracryptotis rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracryptotis rex 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParacryptotis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1950