Cricetops dormitor
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetopsPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Cricetops dormitor 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
21 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cricetops dormitor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cricetops dormitor and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cricetops dormitor and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Desmatolagus gobiensis11 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus11 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus11 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus11 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae10 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens10 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis9 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus9 sites
- Desmatolagus8 sites
- Karakoromys decessus8 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius7 sites
- Gobisorex kingae7 sites
- Selenomys mimicus7 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae7 sites
- Desmatolagus robustus6 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis6 sites
- Ninamys arboraptus6 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi6 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis6 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon6 sites
- Tsaganomyidae indet.6 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus5 sites
- Huangomys frequens5 sites
- Ninamys kazimierzi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cricetops dormitor, 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- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)10
- Discovery of Cricetids (Rodentia, Mammalia) From Middle Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China5
- The Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Ulantatal area (Inner Mongolia, China): New data concerning the evolution of Asian cricetids during the Oligocene2
- Late Eocene-early Oligocene lithological and biological Stratigraphy in the Burqin region of Xinjiang2
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang1
- Nine new rodents from the Oligocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 21 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 Cricetops dormitor 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 Cricetops dormitor, 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 itCricetops through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1923