Cricetus

Cricetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CricetiniPBDB
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 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 94 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 94 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 75 of 94 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 12 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

94 occurrences of Cricetus 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

94 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

Lefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°EAlfambra — 40.39°N, 2.61°WUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°W

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The named rock units Cricetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cricetus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

718 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Cricetus, 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

28 references

Each of the 94 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. 16 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Cricetus

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Burner~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cricetus cricetus canescens · amnh:mammals:176484

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leske 1779