Proscalops tertius
No picture of Proscalops tertius 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 Proscalops tertius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProscalopsPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
16 occurrences of Proscalops tertius 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 Proscalops tertius 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.
Proscalops tertius and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Proscalops tertius and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Geringia mcgregori7 sites
- Palaeocastor7 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi6 sites
- Leidymys blacki6 sites
- Palaeolagus hypsodus6 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi6 sites
- Castoridae4 sites
- Centetodon magnus4 sites
- Eumys4 sites
- Eumys brachyodus4 sites
- Proharrymys fedti4 sites
- Aplodontiidae3 sites
- Daphoenus3 sites
- Domnina gradata3 sites
- Ekgmowechashala philotau3 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax3 sites
- Hesperocyon3 sites
- Hyracodon leidyanus3 sites
- Ischyromys typus3 sites
- Kirkomys nebraskensis3 sites
- Leptauchenia decora3 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi3 sites
- Megalagus turgidus3 sites
- Merycoidodon3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Proscalops tertius, 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- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the eastern portion of the Wildcat Ridge, western Nebraska9
- Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota3
- First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)1
- Observations on the Morphology of the Hedgehog Genus Proterix (Insectivora: Erinaceidae)1
- Observations on Proscalops tertius (Mammalia: Insectivora) of the Upper Oligocene of South Dakota1
- Hutchison: Review of the Insectivora from the Early Miocene Sharps Formation of South Dakota1
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 Proscalops tertius 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 Proscalops tertius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proscalops tertius 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 itProscalops through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1961