Eotalpa anglica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EotalpaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Eotalpa anglica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
6 formations
- Bembridge Limestone Formation2
- Headon Hill Formation2
- Creechbarrow Limestone Formation1
- Lower Headon Beds Formation1
- Headon Beds Formation1
- Lower Hamstead Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Eotalpa anglica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eotalpa anglica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eotalpa anglica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Amphiperatherium5 sites
- Isoptychus4 sites
- Emys3 sites
- Planorbis3 sites
- Saturninia gracilis3 sites
- Suevosciurus3 sites
- Vectipithex smithorum3 sites
- Bransatoglis bahloi2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Cryptopithecus2 sites
- Cryptotopos2 sites
- Dichodon2 sites
- Dunnophis2 sites
- Ectropomys exiguus2 sites
- Glamys devoogdi2 sites
- Glamys priscus2 sites
- Heterohyus2 sites
- Heterohyus nanus2 sites
- Limnaea2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Melanopsis2 sites
- Palaeopython cadurcensis2 sites
- Palaeotherium2 sites
- Paleryx rhombifer2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eotalpa anglica, 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
5 references- Skeletal adaptations and phylogeny of the oldest mole Eotalpa (Talpidae, Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the UK Eocene: the beginning of fossoriality in moles3
- Mammalian taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Bembridge Limestone Formation (Late Eocene, S. England)2
- Skeletal adaptations and phylogeny of the oldest mole Eotalpa (Talpidae, Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the UK Eocene: the beginning of fossoriality in moles1
- New postcranial bones of the extinct mammalian family Nyctitheriidae (Paleogene, UK): Primitive euarchontans with scansorial locomotion1
- New additions to the late middle Eocene mammal fauna of Creechbarrow, Dorset, southern England1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Eotalpa anglica 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 Eotalpa anglica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eotalpa anglica 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 itEotalpa through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sigé et al. 1977