Erinaceidae

Erinaceidae is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats. Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla. Eulipotyphla has been shown to be monophyletic; Soricomorpha is paraphyletic because both Soricidae and Talpidae share a more recent common ancestor with Erinaceidae than with solenodons.

Erinaceidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
hedgehogPBDB
Sits inside
EulipotyphlaPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 24 of 917 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 35 of 917 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 198 of 917 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 545 of 917 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 917 occurrencesPleistocene — about 74 of 917 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 14 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 23 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 27 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 29 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 57 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 60 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 31 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 42 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 73 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 96 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 91 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 73 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 58 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 54 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 39 occurrences4.1–2.1 Mya — about 30 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 69 occurrences57.5 Mya11.7 ka62 Mya0 Mya

917 occurrences of Erinaceidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

917 occurrences

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

141 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.41°N, 101.26°EHsanda Gol — 45.25°N, 101.62°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WLoh — 45.38°N, 101.10°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.51°ELoh — 45.34°N, 101.83°ELoh — 45.50°N, 101.97°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.01°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°EAral — 47.37°N, 60.87°EAral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EAral — 46.78°N, 60.50°ELower Manchar — 26.42°N, 67.83°EPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 52.60°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 52.23°N, 113.63°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WXianshuihe — 35.15°N, 105.11°EXianshuihe — 36.46°N, 104.16°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°W

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The named rock units Erinaceidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 453 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erinaceidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Erinaceidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,745 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 654 sites for Erinaceidae, and this reads 240 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

318 references

Each of the 917 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. 306 further references are not listed. 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 Erinaceidae

Credit
Gibe
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erinaceidae 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.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer von Waldheim 1817