Erinaceomorpha

Erinaceomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EulipotyphlaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 206 occurrencesPaleocene — about 14 of 206 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 192 of 206 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 11 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 24 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 24 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 24 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 24 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 24 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 19 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences63.4 Mya39.7 Mya66.6 Mya36.4 Mya

206 occurrences of Erinaceomorpha on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

206 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

29 formations

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WSespe — 33.83°N, 117.71°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMission Valley — 32.80°N, 117.12°WSantiago — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSantiago — 33.40°N, 117.51°WSantiago — 33.13°N, 117.29°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WStadium — 32.80°N, 117.12°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WPomerado — 32.92°N, 117.07°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WChambi — 35.19°N, 8.65°EPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WSweetwater — 32.66°N, 117.03°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°W

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The named rock units Erinaceomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erinaceomorpha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Erinaceomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Erinaceomorpha, 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

45 references

Each of the 206 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. 33 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 Erinaceomorpha

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEulipotyphla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1910)