Amphechinus minutissimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphechinusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Amphechinus minutissimus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Amphechinus minutissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphechinus minutissimus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Amphechinus minutissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Amphechinus major8 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis8 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus7 sites
- Sinolagomys major7 sites
- Yindirtemys deflexus7 sites
- Sinolagomys ulungurensis6 sites
- Heterosminthus firmus5 sites
- Palaeoscaptor rectus4 sites
- Sinolagomys4 sites
- Litodonomys lajeensis3 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens3 sites
- Parasminthus debruijni3 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus3 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis2 sites
- Asianeomys dangheensis2 sites
- Bohlinotona pusilla2 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis2 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus2 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor gigas2 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli2 sites
- Plesiosminthus promyarion2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Amphechinus minutissimus, 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
2 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)8
- 4. Marsupialia, Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia)1
Each of the 9 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 Amphechinus minutissimus 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 Amphechinus minutissimus, 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 itAmphechinus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler et al. 2007