Megacricetodon
Searched as Megacricetodon minor debruijni. The Paleobiology Database treats Megacricetodon as the accepted name.
No picture of Megacricetodon 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetodontinaePBDB
- 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 1.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.1 Mya and 9.67 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Megacricetodon 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
1 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.
Megacricetodon and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,103 taxa- Heteroxerus45 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus44 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis41 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai40 sites
- Copemys33 sites
- Soricidae33 sites
- Microdyromys32 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis28 sites
- Miodyromys aegercii26 sites
- Ophisaurus25 sites
- Galerix24 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus23 sites
- Blackia miocaenica20 sites
- Cricetodon20 sites
- Lagopsis19 sites
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi18 sites
- Testudo18 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri17 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens17 sites
- Talpidae17 sites
- Rhinocerotidae16 sites
- Trionyx16 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense15 sites
- Aves15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Megacricetodon, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Megacricetodon 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacricetodon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCricetodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fahlbusch 1964)