Afrocricetodon songhori
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfrocricetodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
10 occurrences of Afrocricetodon songhori on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Afrocricetodon songhori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Afrocricetodon songhori and its relatives
MioceneWhere Afrocricetodon songhori and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Diamantomys luederitzi9 sites
- Simonimys genovefae5 sites
- Vulcanisciurus africanus5 sites
- Kenyamys mariae4 sites
- Paranomalurus4 sites
- Paraphiomys pigotti4 sites
- Amphechinus3 sites
- Burtoa sp.3 sites
- Carnivora3 sites
- Edouardia sp.3 sites
- Gonaxis sp.3 sites
- Gulella sp.3 sites
- Hominoidea3 sites
- Homorus sp.3 sites
- Krapfiella sp.3 sites
- Limicolaria3 sites
- Myophiomys arambourgi3 sites
- Nonanomalurus soniae3 sites
- Notocricetodon3 sites
- Ophidia3 sites
- Paraphiomys3 sites
- Rodentia3 sites
- Siamotragulus songhorensis3 sites
- Tayloria sp.3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Afrocricetodon songhori, 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
4 references- Dental remains of Lower Miocene small rodents from Napak (Uganda): Afrocricetodontidae, Myophiomyidae, Kenyamyidae and Sciuridae.5
- The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya3
- A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae, Tetraconodontinae) from the upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya1
- New hominoid fossils from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Afrocricetodon songhori 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 Afrocricetodon songhori, 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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Everything alive alongside itAfrocricetodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lavocat 1973