Megacricetodon collongensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegacricetodonPBDB
- 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 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Megacricetodon collongensis 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
22 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
3 formations
- Xiacaowan Formation2
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group2
- Ville Formation1
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The named rock units Megacricetodon collongensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon collongensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon collongensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
400 taxa- Heteroxerus12 sites
- Lagopsis10 sites
- Ligerimys7 sites
- Aves6 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens6 sites
- Microdyromys koenigswaldi6 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii6 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis6 sites
- Pseudodryomys ibericus6 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense5 sites
- Bunolistriodon5 sites
- Cainotherium5 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus5 sites
- Procervulus dichotomus5 sites
- Pseudodryomys simplicidens5 sites
- Soricidae5 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai5 sites
- Trionyx5 sites
- Anchitherium4 sites
- Brachypotherium brachypus4 sites
- Democricetodon franconicus4 sites
- Emydidae4 sites
- Galerix exilis4 sites
- Gliridae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Megacricetodon collongensis, 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
14 references- Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]4
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))3
- Le gisement a mammiferes miocenes de Castelnau-d'Arbieu (Gers). Donnees nouvelles et implications biostratigraphiques2
- The Aragonian vertebrate fauna of Xiacaowan, Jiangsu2
- Vertébrés du miocène moyen de amor (Leiria) - importance stratigraphique2
- Basal middle Miocene Listriodontinae (Suidae, Artiodactyla) from Madrid, Spain1
- Les vertébrés du Miocène moyen de Contres (Loir-et-Cher, France)1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)]1
- Découverte d’une forme ancestrale du Petit Panda dans le Miocène moyen de Madrid (Espagne)1
- Mamiferos del Mioceno Medio de Tarazona de Aragon1
- La faune de micromammiferes du gisement burdigalien de Port-la-Nouvelle (Aude); complements et indications paleoecologiques1
Each of the 22 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. 2 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.
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No picture of Megacricetodon collongensis 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 Megacricetodon collongensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon collongensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mein 1958