Miosciurus covensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiosciurusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Miosciurus covensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Miosciurus covensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Miosciurus covensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Miosciurus covensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Agriochoerus guyotianus3 sites
- Eporeodon occidentalis3 sites
- Curvellipsoentomoolithus laddi2 sites
- Daphoenus2 sites
- Neoadjidaumo arctozophus2 sites
- Paradaphoenus cuspigerus2 sites
- Paroreodon parvus2 sites
- Proapeomys condoni2 sites
- Caelifera1 site
- Corumictis wolsani1 site
- Herpetotherium merriami1 site
- Microtheriomys brevirhinus1 site
- Palaeogale1 site
- Protosciurus mengi1 site
- Sinclairella dakotensis1 site
- Subterroothecichnus radialis1 site
- Temnocyon altigenis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Miosciurus covensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Miosciurus covensis 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 Miosciurus covensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miosciurus covensis 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 itMiosciurus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth and Samuels 2015