Proscapanus sansaniensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProscapanusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
26 occurrences of Proscapanus sansaniensis 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
26 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
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group3
- Ville Formation1
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The named rock units Proscapanus sansaniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proscapanus sansaniensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Proscapanus sansaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
492 taxa- Anchitherium aurelianense11 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus10 sites
- Heteroxerus10 sites
- Megacricetodon minor10 sites
- Ophisaurus10 sites
- Testudo10 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis9 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii8 sites
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi8 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai8 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis7 sites
- Galerix7 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens7 sites
- Lanthanotherium7 sites
- Microdyromys7 sites
- Micromeryx flourensianus7 sites
- Palaeomeryx7 sites
- Plesiodimylus chantrei7 sites
- Aureliachoerus aurelianensis6 sites
- Dorcatherium crassum6 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus6 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri6 sites
- Lacerta6 sites
- Lagomeryx6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Proscapanus sansaniensis, 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
15 references- Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)6
- Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany.4
- Biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Fluviatile Untere Serie (Early and Middle Miocene) in the central part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin: implications for palaeoenvironment and climate2
- Le gisement a mammiferes miocenes de Castelnau-d'Arbieu (Gers). Donnees nouvelles et implications biostratigraphiques2
- Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, ein neuer machairodontider Felide aus dem Miocän Deutschlands und Frankreichs2
- Le site paléontologique du Grand Morier (Pont-Boutard, Indre-et-Loire, France): contexte géologique et détail biostratigraphique des formations cénozoïques à partir des assemblages de vertébrés fossiles1
- Les fossiles de mammifères miocènes de la colletion de J.-P. Hartmann conservés dans le Musée du Savignéen1
- Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)]1
- La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)1
- Talpiden (Mammalia, Insectivora) aus dem Orleanium and Astaracium Bayerns.1
- Die obermiozäne Säugetierfauna von Anwil (Baselland); (The Upper Miocene mammalian fauna of Anwil, Baselland)1
- Une faune de mammiferes dans l'Helvetien marin de Sos (Lot-et-Garonne) et de Rimbez (Landes).1
Each of the 26 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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.
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No picture of Proscapanus sansaniensis 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 Proscapanus sansaniensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proscapanus sansaniensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1851