Scalopini

The Scalopini are a tribe of moles belonging to the family Talpidae. They include all the New World moles apart from the strikingly distinctive star-nosed mole. As the similarity of the names implies, they are the standard form of the Scalopinae, the North American or New World moles, and can be found virtually anywhere north of Northern Mexico and south of Northern Canada where environmental factors permit.

Scalopini

Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt University · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TalpinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 227 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 107 of 227 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 227 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 85 of 227 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 10 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.0–7.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.0–6.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.0–5.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.0–4.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 16 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 63 occurrences24.7 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

227 occurrences of Scalopini on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

227 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

55 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WAlkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.61°N, 11.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WChalk Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WCeja — 35.00°N, 106.65°WCeja — 34.65°N, 106.80°WPalomas — 32.97°N, 107.32°WPalomas — 33.15°N, 107.27°WCamp Rice — 32.02°N, 106.70°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°W

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The named rock units Scalopini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 124 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scalopini and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scalopini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,673 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Scalopini, 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

106 references

Each of the 227 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. 94 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 content1

Picture of Scalopini

Credit
Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt University
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scalopini 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dobson 1883