Prosciurus mongoliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProsciurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prosciurus mongoliensis 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Prosciurus mongoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prosciurus mongoliensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Prosciurus mongoliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Allosminthus khandae1 site
- Amphicticeps makhchinus1 site
- Amphicynodon teilhardi1 site
- Asiavorator gracilis1 site
- Coelodontomys asiaticus1 site
- Crythiosaurus mongoliensis1 site
- Cyclomylus biforatus1 site
- Cyclomylus intermedius1 site
- Cyclomylus lohensis1 site
- Desmatolagus gobiensis1 site
- Desmatolagus orlovi1 site
- Desmatolagus vetustus1 site
- Desmatolagus youngi1 site
- Didymoconus colgatei1 site
- Eucricetodon asiaticus1 site
- Eucricetodon caducus1 site
- Gobiomeryx dubius1 site
- Heosminthus1 site
- Heosminthus chimidae1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Hyaenodon chunkhtensis1 site
- Hyaenodon pervagus1 site
- Karakoromys decessus1 site
- Lacerta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Prosciurus mongoliensis, 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
2 references- New Oligocene sciurids and aplodontids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Mongolia3
- The record of Aplodontidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) in the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia) with some comments on the morphologic variability1
Each of the 4 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 Prosciurus mongoliensis 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 Prosciurus mongoliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prosciurus mongoliensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itProsciurus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang and Dashzeveg 2005