Echinops telfairi
The lesser hedgehog tenrec is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is the only species in the genus Echinops and is named in honour of Charles Telfair. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, shrubland, and shrubland and dry savanna.
Wilfried Berns www.Tierdoku.com · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · via Wikipedia/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- Also called
- lesser hedgehog tenrecPBDB
- Sits inside
- EchinopsPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Tenrecidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tenrecidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Echinops telfairi on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Echinops telfairi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Echinops telfairi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Acrantophis1 site
- Aldabrachelys1 site
- Apus1 site
- Archaeolemur majori1 site
- Artamella viridis1 site
- Bos indicus1 site
- Canis familiaris1 site
- Cheirogaleus medius1 site
- Coracopsis vasa1 site
- Corvus albus1 site
- Coua cristata1 site
- Coua cursor1 site
- Crocodylus niloticus1 site
- Cyanolanius madagascarinus1 site
- Eidolon1 site
- Eliurus1 site
- Eremopterix hova1 site
- Falco newtoni1 site
- Foudia madagascariensis1 site
- Furcifer1 site
- Gallinula chloropus1 site
- Geochelone radiata1 site
- Geogale aurita1 site
- Hadropithecus stenognathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Echinops telfairi, 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 1 occurrence 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
Media content2
Picture of Echinops telfairi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Wilfried Berns www.Tierdoku.com
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0 de
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- AMNH Mammal Collections
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Echinops telfairi · AMNH:Mammals:M-170607
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEchinops through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1838