Cryptotopos communis
No picture of Cryptotopos communis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptotopos communis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptotoposPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Cryptotopos communis 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
16 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.
Cryptotopos communis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cryptotopos communis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Percymygale vauclusensis11 sites
- Pseudosciurus8 sites
- Suevosciurus8 sites
- Tegulariscaptor minor8 sites
- Suevosciurus ehingensis7 sites
- Euronyctia franconica6 sites
- Lophallomys atavus4 sites
- Percymygale minor4 sites
- Saturninia4 sites
- Eomys3 sites
- Eomys antiquus3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Bransateryx vireti2 sites
- Butselia biveri2 sites
- Eoanilius oligocenicus2 sites
- Nyctitheriidae2 sites
- Protapirus priscus2 sites
- Suevosciurus fraasi2 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Blainvillimys helmeri1 site
- Boinae1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Ephemeromys hospes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cryptotopos communis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 16 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cryptotopos communis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptotopos communis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptotopos communis was found in Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCryptotopos through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler 2007