Megacricetodon primitivus
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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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Megacricetodon primitivus 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
7 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
4 formations
- Keramaria Formation2
- Antonios Formation1
- Tudela Formation1
- Detritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats Formation1
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The named rock units Megacricetodon primitivus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacricetodon primitivus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megacricetodon primitivus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Copemys4 sites
- Bunolistriodon3 sites
- Cricetodon meini3 sites
- Eotragus3 sites
- Microdyromys3 sites
- Miopanthera lorteti3 sites
- Palaeosciurus3 sites
- Schizogalerix3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Alloptox2 sites
- Democricetodon franconicus2 sites
- Democricetodon hispanicus2 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis2 sites
- Dorcatherium crassum2 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri2 sites
- Galerix symeonidisi2 sites
- Hemicyon2 sites
- Lacertidae2 sites
- Lagopsis2 sites
- Latonia2 sites
- Ligerimys2 sites
- Martes2 sites
- Melissiodon dominans2 sites
- Palaeomeryx kaupi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Megacricetodon primitivus, 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
6 references- The Sanithera (Mammalia, Suoidea) from the Middle Miocene of Chios Island, Aegean Sea, Greece2
- Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe1
- Vasseuromys rambliensis sp. nov. (Gliridae, Mammalia) from the Ramblian (Lower Miocene) of the Tudela Formation (Ebro basin, Spain)1
- A new Early/Mididle Miocene mammal locality from Macedonia, Greece1
- The mammals from the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part 8: The Cricetidae1
- Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, ein neuer machairodontider Felide aus dem Miocän Deutschlands und Frankreichs1
Each of the 7 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. 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Megacricetodon primitivus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megacricetodon primitivus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Mein and Freudenthal 1971