Sorex savini

Sorex savini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SorexPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–932 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences932 ka–745 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences745 ka–559 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences559 ka–373 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences373 ka–186 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences186 ka–0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.55 Mya774 ka5.6 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Sorex savini 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

16 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

1 formation

Cromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°E

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The named rock units Sorex savini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sorex savini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sorex savini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Sorex savini, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Sorex savini

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sorex savini 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 itSorex through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinton 1911