Alphagaulus pristinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlphagaulusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Alphagaulus pristinus 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Alphagaulus pristinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alphagaulus pristinus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Alphagaulus pristinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Equinae3 sites
- Peraceras profectum3 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus3 sites
- Archaeolaginae2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Hypohippus osborni2 sites
- Oreolagus nevadensis2 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius2 sites
- Problastomeryx primus2 sites
- Aelurodon ferox1 site
- Ancenycteris1 site
- Angustidens vireti1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Bassariscus antiquus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer1 site
- Brachycrus laticeps1 site
- Copemys lindsayi1 site
- Cranioceratini1 site
- Cupidinimus madisonensis1 site
- Cynomys1 site
- Desmatippus avus1 site
- Diceratherium niobrarense1 site
- Domninoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Alphagaulus pristinus, 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- New Material of Alphagaulus pristinus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Mylagaulidae) from the Deep River Formation (Montana, U.S.A.): Implications for Ecology, Ontogeny, and Phylogeny1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska1
- Nichols, 19981
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Alphagaulus pristinus 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 Alphagaulus pristinus, 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 itAlphagaulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douglass 1903)