Anourosorex
Asian mole shrews (Anourosorex) are a genus of shrews that resemble moles, from China, Taiwan, India, and Indochina. They are the only known genus of the red-toothed shrew tribe Anourosoricini. The four known species are:Assam mole shrew Giant mole shrew Chinese mole shrew Taiwanese mole shrew †Japanese mole shrew
Pei-Jen Lee Shaner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- mole shrewPBDB
- Sits inside
- NeomyiniPBDB
- 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 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Anourosorex on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Miocene57%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene40%
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.
Anourosorex and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anourosorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Hystrix8 sites
- Sciurotamias8 sites
- Brachyrhizomys7 sites
- Muntiacus7 sites
- Mus7 sites
- Neocricetodon7 sites
- Typhlomys7 sites
- Alilepus6 sites
- Blarinella6 sites
- Dremomys6 sites
- Felis6 sites
- Ictitherium6 sites
- Laccopithecus robustus6 sites
- Metacervulus6 sites
- Myotis6 sites
- Parapodemus6 sites
- Potamochoerus6 sites
- Selenoportax6 sites
- Sivaonyx bathygnathus6 sites
- Callosciurus5 sites
- Dorcabune5 sites
- Heterosorex wangi5 sites
- Indarctos5 sites
- Martes5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anourosorex, 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
6 references- Insectivores (Mammalia: Erinaceidae, Soricidae, Talpidae) from the Lufeng hominoid locality, Late Miocene of China5
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China1
- A preliminary study of the early Pleistocene deposits and the mammalian fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fancheng, Anhui, China1
- A preliminary report on a micromammalian assemblage from the hominoid locality of Lufeng, Yunnan1
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. 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 Anourosorex
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Pei-Jen Lee Shaner
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anourosorex 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNeomyini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1872