Cricetulus

Cricetulus is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae ; it has seven member species that inhabit arid or semi-arid regions in Eurasia.

Cricetulus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CricetinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 6.965 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 29 of 37 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.0–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–995 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences995 ka–746 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences746 ka–498 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences498 ka–249 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences249 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.09 Mya129 ka7.5 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Cricetulus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

37 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

3 formations

Dursunlu — 38.28°N, 31.91°EChikoi — 51.03°N, 106.65°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°E

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The named rock units Cricetulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cricetulus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cricetulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Cricetulus, 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

29 references

Each of the 37 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Cricetulus

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Cricetulus migratorius · uf:mammals:26457

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCricetinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1867