Petauristodon minimus
No picture of Petauristodon minimus 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 Petauristodon minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetauristodonPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Petauristodon minimus 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Petauristodon minimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petauristodon minimus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Petauristodon minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Copemys longidens2 sites
- Cupidinimus halli2 sites
- Cupidinimus lindsayi2 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis2 sites
- Limnoecus tricuspis2 sites
- Mojavemys lophatus2 sites
- Perognathus furlongi2 sites
- Perognathus minutus2 sites
- Anchitherium navasotae1 site
- Archaeohippus blackbergi1 site
- Copemys barstowensis1 site
- Copemys russelli1 site
- Copemys tenuis1 site
- Cynarctoides whistleri1 site
- Floridatragulus nanus1 site
- Menoceras barbouri1 site
- Miospermophilus1 site
- Nothokemas hidalgensis1 site
- Parahippus leonensis1 site
- Petauristodon jamesi1 site
- Prosynthetoceras texanus1 site
- Protosciurus1 site
- Pseudotheridomys1 site
- Tamias ateles1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Petauristodon minimus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain1
Each of the 3 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 Petauristodon minimus 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 Petauristodon minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petauristodon minimus 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 itPetauristodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindsay 1972)