Archaeodesmana

No picture of Archaeodesmana 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 Archaeodesmana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DesmanaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Desmana
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.1 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 21 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.9–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.5–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.67 Mya3.55 Mya11.6 Mya1.3 Mya

39 occurrences of Archaeodesmana 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

39 occurrences

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

5 formations

Alfambra — 40.39°N, 2.61°WAlfambra — 40.35°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.59°N, 2.69°WAlfambra — 40.52°N, 2.72°WKomnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Archaeodesmana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeodesmana and its relatives

Miocene

Where Archaeodesmana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

481 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Archaeodesmana, 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

12 references

Each of the 39 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 Archaeodesmana 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 Archaeodesmana, 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 itDesmana through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Topachevski and Pashkov 1983