Prosciurus

Prosciurus is an extinct genus of rodents in the family of Aplodontiidae.

Prosciurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AplodontiidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 18 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 40 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37 Mya20.45 Mya40.2 Mya15.5 Mya

40 occurrences of Prosciurus 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

40 occurrences

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

12 formations

Chadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 101.62°EHsanda Gol — 44.08°N, 106.87°ECypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°ECook Ranch — 45.00°N, 112.80°WUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°EHouldjin — 42.00°N, 112.00°EKeziletuogayi — 47.83°N, 86.68°EWulanbulage — 39.83°N, 108.73°E

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The named rock units Prosciurus 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.

Prosciurus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Prosciurus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Prosciurus, 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

20 references

Each of the 40 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. 8 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.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Prosciurus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Prosciurus relictus · usnm:paleobiology:437793

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAplodontiidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1903)