Erinaceus

Erinaceus is a genus of hedgehog from the family of Erinaceidae. There are four main species of Erinaceus. The range is all across Europe, throughout the Middle East, parts of Russia, and extending to northern China and Korea. The European hedgehog has been introduced to New Zealand.

Erinaceus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErinaceinaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 97 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 66 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences8.725 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Erinaceus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

97 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

10 formations

Nubia — 22.50°N, 30.75°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EC1/LR — 33.58°N, 7.65°WPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°EGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°E

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The named rock units Erinaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erinaceus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Erinaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,442 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Erinaceus, 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

64 references

Each of the 97 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. 52 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 content3

Picture of Erinaceus

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. DarkAngel~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Erinaceus europaeus · zmuc:cn:ZMUC-M03-3856

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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.

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What may have been alongside itErinaceinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758