Sciuravidae

Sciuravidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RodentiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 292 occurrencesEocene — about 291 of 292 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 292 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 15 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 15 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 15 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 15 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 20 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 26 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 26 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 26 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 26 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 22 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 12 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 12 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 12 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 12 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51.1 Mya37 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

292 occurrences of Sciuravidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

292 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

30 formations

Bridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.37°N, 109.82°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.76°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 41.20°N, 110.50°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 42.45°N, 108.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°W? Tepee Trail — 43.90°N, 110.80°WTepee Trail — 43.70°N, 108.70°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WClaron — 37.82°N, 111.95°WWagon Bed — 43.20°N, 108.20°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WColmena Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°W

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The named rock units Sciuravidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciuravidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sciuravidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,073 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 221 sites for Sciuravidae, 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

67 references

Each of the 292 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. 55 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 Sciuravidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sciuravidae 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 itRodentia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Gidley 1918