Desmana inflata
No picture of Desmana inflata 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 Desmana inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmanaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Desmana
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Desmana inflata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Desmana inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Desmana inflata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Desmana inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Apodemus3 sites
- Castillomys crusafonti3 sites
- Eliomys quercinus3 sites
- Micromys minutus3 sites
- Mimomys3 sites
- Prolagus3 sites
- Sorex subminutus3 sites
- Stephanomys3 sites
- Allohippus stenonis2 sites
- Oryctolagus2 sites
- Parapetenyia hibbardi2 sites
- Beremendia fissidens1 site
- Mammuthus meridionalis1 site
- Microtidae sp.1 site
- Myosorex1 site
- Sus strozzii1 site
- Vespertilio1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Desmana inflata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Desmana inflata 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 Desmana inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmana inflata 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.
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What may have been alongside itDesmana through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rümke 1985