Deinogalerix koenigswaldi
Peter Maas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeinogalerixPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Deinogalerix koenigswaldi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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.
Deinogalerix koenigswaldi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Deinogalerix koenigswaldi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Deinogalerix brevirostris2 sites
- Apodemus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Galericinae1 site
- Lagomorpha1 site
- Mammuthus lamarmorae1 site
- Microtia magna1 site
- Mikrotia1 site
- Palaeortyx volans1 site
- Solitudo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Deinogalerix koenigswaldi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- A new skeleton of the giant hedgehog Deinogalerix from the Miocene of Gargano, Southern Italy1
- The giant erinaceid insectivore, Deinogalerix Freudenthal, from the Upper Miocene of Gargano, Italy1
- Deinogalerix koenigswaldi nov. gen., nov. spec., a giant insctivore from the Neogene of Italy1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Deinogalerix koenigswaldi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Peter Maas
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Deinogalerix koenigswaldi 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 itDeinogalerix through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Freudenthal 1972