Microtocricetus molassicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrotocricetusPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Microtocricetus molassicus 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Microtocricetus molassicus 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.
Microtocricetus molassicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Microtocricetus molassicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Muscardinus hispanicus3 sites
- Plesiosorex schaffneri3 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai3 sites
- Albanensia grimmi2 sites
- Anomalomys gaudryi2 sites
- Blackia miocaenica2 sites
- Chelotriton2 sites
- Clemmydopsis2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Crusafontina2 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum2 sites
- Dinosorex2 sites
- Dorcatherium naui2 sites
- Eomyops2 sites
- Eumyarion latior2 sites
- Eurolagus2 sites
- Glirulus lissiensis2 sites
- Hoploaceratherium2 sites
- Latonia gigantea2 sites
- Leuciscus2 sites
- Martes2 sites
- Microdyromys2 sites
- Parachleuastochoerus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microtocricetus molassicus, 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
4 references- A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans1
- Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium1
- Microtocricetus molassicus Fahlbusch and Mayr, 1975 (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Belchatow (Poland).1
- Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns1
Each of the 4 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 Microtocricetus molassicus 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 Microtocricetus molassicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microtocricetus molassicus 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.
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What may have been alongside itMicrotocricetus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fahlbusch and Mayr 1975