Hypsocricetus
No picture of Hypsocricetus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hypsocricetus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 3.55 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hypsocricetus 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 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.
Hypsocricetus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hypsocricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Apodemus2 sites
- Insectivora2 sites
- Leporidae2 sites
- Mesocricetus primitivus2 sites
- Pliopetaurista2 sites
- Prolagus2 sites
- Pseudomeriones2 sites
- Rhagapodemus2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Asoriculus gibberodon1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Centralomys magnus1 site
- Deinsdorfia kerkhoffi1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Mammut1 site
- Micromys steffensi1 site
- Murinae1 site
- Myomimus1 site
- Occitanomys (Rhodomys) adroveri1 site
- Pliospalax1 site
- Procapreolus1 site
- Soricidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypsocricetus, 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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content0
No picture of Hypsocricetus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hypsocricetus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Hypsocricetus 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daxner-Höck 1992