Hesperosorex
No picture of Hesperosorex was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Hesperosorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NectogaliniPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hesperosorex on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Hesperosorex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hesperosorex and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hesperosorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Anouroneomys minimus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Caninae1 site
- Copemys dentalis1 site
- Cricetinae1 site
- Cupidinimus1 site
- Dipoides stirtoni1 site
- Eremochen russelli1 site
- Eucastor malheurensis1 site
- Mammut1 site
- Merychyus1 site
- Microtoscoptes disjunctus1 site
- Ocyplonessa shotwelli1 site
- Querquedula pullulans1 site
- Scapanus shultzi1 site
- Spermophilus1 site
- Tayassuinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hesperosorex, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Mammalian fauna of the Upper Juntura formation, the Black Butte local fauna1
- Late Cenozoic Microtine Rodents from Wyoming and Idaho1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hesperosorex was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hesperosorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperosorex 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNectogalini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1957