Gliridae

A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae. Dormice are nocturnal animals found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. They are named for their long dormant hibernation period of six months or longer. There are nine genera and 28 living species of dormice, with half of living species belonging to the African genus Graphiurus.

Gliridae

H. Osadnik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
dormousePBDB
Sits inside
SciuromorphaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 1269 occurrencesEocene — about 104 of 1269 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 205 of 1269 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 678 of 1269 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 92 of 1269 occurrencesPleistocene — about 181 of 1269 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 38 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 46 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 31 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 28 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 28 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 35 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 48 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 48 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 35 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 59 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 67 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 138 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 119 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 97 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 58 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 42 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 48 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 58 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 87 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 148 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

1,269 occurrences of Gliridae 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

1,269 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

75 formations

Lower Freshwater Molasse — 48.37°N, 9.87°ELower Freshwater Molasse — 48.42°N, 9.95°EVillarrosano — 40.53°N, 1.02°WVillarrosano — 40.58°N, 1.27°WAlfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 2.66°WAlfambra — 40.59°N, 2.69°WAlfambra — 40.35°N, 2.60°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°ELower Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WLower Headon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.10°WLower Headon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.53°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.55°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ELower Freshwater Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.11°ELignite-Sandstone — 41.00°N, 26.82°ELignite-Sandstone — 40.92°N, 26.81°ELignite-Sandstone — 38.15°N, 26.90°EUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WBorgloon — 50.85°N, 4.82°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°EChâteauredon — 44.02°N, 6.22°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°ETieersihabahe — 46.60°N, 87.73°ETieersihabahe — 46.68°N, 88.48°ETuğlu — 40.42°N, 34.31°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°EReuver clay — 50.92°N, 6.82°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°E

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The named rock units Gliridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 960 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gliridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gliridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,713 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 604 sites for Gliridae, 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

291 references

Each of the 1,269 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. 279 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 Gliridae

Credit
H. Osadnik
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gliridae 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. Muirhead 1819