Megacricetodon debruijni
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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 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Megacricetodon debruijni 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Megacricetodon debruijni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon debruijni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon debruijni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cricetodon (Hispanomys) decedens4 sites
- Myomimus dehmi4 sites
- Heteroxerus3 sites
- Cricetulodon hartenbergeri2 sites
- Democricetodon minor2 sites
- Myomimus multicrestatus2 sites
- Aceratherium1 site
- Amphilagus1 site
- Angustidens excultus1 site
- Anhinga pannonica1 site
- Anomalomys gaudryi1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Clemmydopsis1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Democricetodon freisingensis1 site
- Democricetodon gaillardi1 site
- Desmanella quinquecuspidata1 site
- Dorcatherium1 site
- Eomuscardinus sansaniensis1 site
- Esocidae1 site
- Kretzoiarctos beatrix1 site
- Leptodontomys1 site
- Leuciscus1 site
- Margaritifera flabellata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Megacricetodon debruijni, 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- On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part IV4
- Cricetidae from the type-Aragonian; the genus Megacricetodon.1
- Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns1
Each of the 6 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 Megacricetodon debruijni 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 Megacricetodon debruijni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon debruijni 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 itMegacricetodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Freudenthal 1968