Miopetaurista
Searched as Miopetaurista albanensis quiricensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Miopetaurista as the accepted name.
Miopetaurista is an extinct genus of flying squirrels in the family Sciuridae. Fossils of this genus have been found from the Miocene and Pliocene of Europe, Asia (China), and North America.
No picture of Miopetaurista 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 Miopetaurista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciuridaePBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Miopetaurista 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Miopetaurista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miopetaurista and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miopetaurista and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
812 taxa- Spermophilinus bredai17 sites
- Blackia miocaenica14 sites
- Democricetodon mutilus14 sites
- Eumyarion bifidus13 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri12 sites
- Bransatoglis astaracensis11 sites
- Heteroxerus11 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis10 sites
- Megacricetodon minor10 sites
- Anomalomys minor9 sites
- Microdyromys9 sites
- Ophisaurus9 sites
- Soricidae9 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum8 sites
- Copemys8 sites
- Galerix8 sites
- Palaeosciurus sutteri8 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense7 sites
- Colubridae7 sites
- Glis minor7 sites
- Lacerta7 sites
- Lanthanotherium7 sites
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi7 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Miopetaurista, 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 Miopetaurista 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 Miopetaurista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miopetaurista 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSciuridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1962