Scalopus blancoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalopusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Scalopus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Scalopus blancoensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Scalopus blancoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalopus blancoensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Scalopus blancoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Perognathus pearlettensis3 sites
- Perognathus rexroadensis3 sites
- Platygonus3 sites
- Sigmodon minor3 sites
- Antilocapridae2 sites
- Borophagus diversidens2 sites
- Geomys2 sites
- Gigantocamelus spatulus2 sites
- Liomys centralis2 sites
- Paenemarmota barbouri2 sites
- Peromyscus kansasensis2 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens2 sites
- Sorex taylori2 sites
- Spermophilus2 sites
- Baiomys1 site
- Blancocamelus meadei1 site
- Canis lepophagus1 site
- Chasmaporthetes ossifragus1 site
- Dinofelis palaeoonca1 site
- Equus (Asinus) cumminsi1 site
- Geomyidae1 site
- Glossotherium chapadmalense1 site
- Glyptotherium texanum1 site
- Hemiauchenia blancoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Scalopus blancoensis, 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- Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas3
- Moles of the genus Scalopus (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Talpidae) from the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (Blancan) of New Mexico2
Each of the 5 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 Scalopus blancoensis 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 Scalopus blancoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalopus blancoensis 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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What may have been alongside itScalopus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalquest 1975)