Mus minotaurus
No picture of Mus minotaurus 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 Mus minotaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
17 occurrences of Mus minotaurus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
17 occurrences- Pleistocene94%
- Holocene6%
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.
Mus minotaurus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mus minotaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Candiacervus rethymnensis7 sites
- Candiacervus listeri6 sites
- Candiacervus ropalophorus6 sites
- Testudo marginata6 sites
- Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi5 sites
- Candiacervus4 sites
- Columba4 sites
- Candiacervus cretensis3 sites
- Corvus monedula3 sites
- Crocidura zimmermanni3 sites
- Mauremys rivulata3 sites
- Athene cretensis2 sites
- Bufo viridis2 sites
- Candiacervus reumeri2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Columba palumbus2 sites
- Crocidura2 sites
- Elaphe2 sites
- Falco tinnunculus2 sites
- Gyps fulvus2 sites
- Kritimys catreus2 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus2 sites
- Scolopax rusticola2 sites
- Turdus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Mus minotaurus, 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 endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete I-II10
- Pleistozäne Muriden der Insel Kreta3
- Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean1
- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece1
- Seconda spedizione paleontologica Lincea nell'isola di Creta (1975)1
- New Pleistocene Murinæ from Crete1
Each of the 17 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
Media content0
No picture of Mus minotaurus 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 Mus minotaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bate 1942