Crocidura

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrocidurinaePBDB
- 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 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
187 occurrences of Crocidura 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
187 occurrences- Miocene2%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene11%
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
8 formations
- Koobi Fora Formation3
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group3
- Tatrot Formation2
- Vogel River Series Formation1
- Latamne Formation1
- Apolakkia Formation1
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The named rock units Crocidura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 174 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crocidura and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crocidura and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,341 taxa- Microtus51 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus43 sites
- Lepus37 sites
- Mimomys37 sites
- Equus34 sites
- Myodes34 sites
- Apodemus33 sites
- Pliomys33 sites
- Allocricetus32 sites
- Chiroptera30 sites
- Beremendia fissidens29 sites
- Arvicola26 sites
- Myotis26 sites
- Cricetus cricetus24 sites
- Erinaceus24 sites
- Sorex23 sites
- Cervus22 sites
- Microtus arvalis20 sites
- Aves19 sites
- Sorex minutus19 sites
- Vulpes vulpes19 sites
- Sorex runtonensis18 sites
- Talpa fossilis18 sites
- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Crocidura, 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
79 references- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary15
- I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale14
- Early and Middle Pleistocene environments and hominid biogeography; micromammalian evidence from Kabwe, Twin Rivers and Mumbwa Caves in central Zambia11
- The Structure and Dynamics of a West African Savanna9
- Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania)8
- Notes on the Soricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Crete. I. The Pleistocene species Crocidura zimmermanni8
- The endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete I-II6
- New microstratigraphic horizons in the vertebrate chronology of the Hungarian Pleistocene5
- The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, Vol. 15
- The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South Africa4
- Plio-Pleistocene biogeography of Italian mainland micromammals3
- Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco3
Each of the 187 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. 67 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 Crocidura
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCrocidurinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wagler 1832)