Hitonkala macdonaldtau
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HitonkalaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 24.7 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Hitonkala macdonaldtau 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Reunion Creek Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
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The named rock units Hitonkala macdonaldtau has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hitonkala macdonaldtau and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hitonkala macdonaldtau and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Promylagaulus riggsi5 sites
- Proscalops secundus5 sites
- Gripholagomys lavocati4 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi4 sites
- Paciculus nebraskensis4 sites
- Alwoodia3 sites
- Archaeolagus primigenius3 sites
- Entoptychus grandiplanus3 sites
- Nototamias quadratus3 sites
- Parallomys americanus3 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus3 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni2 sites
- Arikareeomys skinneri2 sites
- Centetodon divaricatus2 sites
- Florentiamys2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Gregorymys formosus2 sites
- Leidymys cerasus2 sites
- Palaeocastor fossor2 sites
- Parvericius voorhiesi2 sites
- Plesiosminthus clivosus2 sites
- Proheteromys2 sites
- Protosciurus2 sites
- Protospermophilus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hitonkala macdonaldtau, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas2
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska2
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
Each of the 5 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. 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 content0
No picture of Hitonkala macdonaldtau was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Hitonkala macdonaldtau, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hitonkala macdonaldtau was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itHitonkala through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1992