Lophocricetus
No picture of Lophocricetus 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 Lophocricetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipodidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lophocricetus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Lophocricetus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lophocricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Ochotona2 sites
- Allactaga fru1 site
- Allorattus engesseri1 site
- Amblycoptus1 site
- Anatolomys teilhardi1 site
- Apodemus1 site
- Apodemus lii1 site
- Aratomys bilikeensis1 site
- Archaeodesmana1 site
- Asoriculus1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Brachyscirtetes robustus1 site
- Castor anderssoni1 site
- Chardinomys bilikeensis1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Crusafontina kormosi1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Desmaninae1 site
- Erinaceus mongolicus1 site
- Eutamias ertemtensis1 site
- Hansdebruijnia perpusilla1 site
- Huaxiamys1 site
- Ischymomys1 site
- Kowalskia similis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lophocricetus, 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
2 references- The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha)2
- A new species of jerboa (Mammalia, Rodentia, Allactaga) from the late Miocene of Ukraine1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lophocricetus 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 Lophocricetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lophocricetus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDipodidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlosser 1924