Scapanus malatinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScapanusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Scapanus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Scapanus malatinus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene72%
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
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The named rock units Scapanus malatinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scapanus malatinus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Scapanus malatinus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Camelops6 sites
- Equus6 sites
- Geomyidae6 sites
- Hemiauchenia6 sites
- Hodomys6 sites
- Nerterogeomys anzensis6 sites
- Nerterogeomys garbanii6 sites
- Sylvilagus hibbardi6 sites
- Dipodomys compactus5 sites
- Sylvilagus5 sites
- Odocoileus4 sites
- Sigmodon4 sites
- Titanotylopus4 sites
- Canis3 sites
- Capromeryx3 sites
- Dipodomys3 sites
- Felinae3 sites
- Megalonyx3 sites
- Navahoceros3 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens3 sites
- Sigmodon lindsayi3 sites
- Trigonictis macrodon3 sites
- Canis latrans2 sites
- Nothrotherium shastense2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Scapanus malatinus, 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- Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary6
- Moles of the Scapanus latimanus group (Talpidae, Insectivora) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of California1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Scapanus malatinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scapanus malatinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScapanus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hutchison 1987