Allocricetus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
78 occurrences of Allocricetus 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
78 occurrences- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene91%
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 Allocricetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Allocricetus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Allocricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
606 taxa- Mimomys49 sites
- Microtus46 sites
- Pliomys46 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus36 sites
- Myodes34 sites
- Beremendia fissidens31 sites
- Lepus30 sites
- Apodemus26 sites
- Cricetus cricetus25 sites
- Crocidura25 sites
- Sorex minutus25 sites
- Equus23 sites
- Sorex runtonensis22 sites
- Talpa fossilis22 sites
- Arvicola21 sites
- Ochotona21 sites
- Citellus20 sites
- Sicista praeloriger19 sites
- Chiroptera18 sites
- Erinaceus18 sites
- Lagurus18 sites
- Sorex18 sites
- Spalax18 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Allocricetus, 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
24 references- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary15
- Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania)11
- I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale8
- Biochronological implications of the Arvicolidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Lower Pleistocene hominid-bearing level of Trinchera Dolina 6 (TD6, Atapuerca, Spain)7
- Principaux gisements paleontologiques Francais du Pleistocene Moyen: Essai de classification6
- Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung5
- Pliozane und Pleistozane Cricetinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus Polen4
- New microstratigraphic horizons in the vertebrate chronology of the Hungarian Pleistocene3
- The succession of rodent faunas from the Mio/Pliocene lacustrine deposits of the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin (Greece)2
- The Biharian fauna from Monte La Mesa (Verona, northeastern Italy)2
- Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications2
- A latest Biharian small vertebrate fauna from the lacustrine succession of San Lorenzo (Sant'Arcangelo Basin, Basilicata, Italy)1
Each of the 78 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. 12 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
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No picture of Allocricetus 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 Allocricetus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1930