Paralactaga
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipodidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
9 occurrences of Paralactaga on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene55%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene5%
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 Paralactaga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paralactaga and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paralactaga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Ochotona4 sites
- Apodemus3 sites
- Cricetidae3 sites
- Mimomys3 sites
- Muridae3 sites
- Prosiphneus3 sites
- Sorex3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Atlantoxerus2 sites
- Castor anderssoni2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Eucastor2 sites
- Germanomys2 sites
- Hypolagus2 sites
- Myomimus sinensis2 sites
- Nannocricetus2 sites
- Orientalomys2 sites
- Quyania chowi2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Sicista2 sites
- Sminthoides2 sites
- Sminthoides fraudator2 sites
- Spermophilinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paralactaga, 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- Neogene micromammals of China4
- Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province1
- The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha)1
- A preliminary report on the Late Pliocene Micromammalian fauna from Yangyuan and Yuxian, Hebei1
- Some Pliocene mammalian fossils from Songshan 2 and 3 (Tianzhu, Gansu) and the Songshan Fauna1
- Cenozoic geology of the Kaolan-Yungteng area of Central Kansu1
Each of the 9 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 Paralactaga 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 Paralactaga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralactaga 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDipodidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1927