Muscardinus

Muscardinus

Danielle Schwarz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlirinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 105 occurrencesMiocene — about 57 of 105 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 105 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 31 of 105 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Muscardinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

105 occurrences

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

15 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EAlfambra — 40.37°N, 2.59°WAlfambra — 40.50°N, 2.66°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°EAlcala — 39.17°N, 1.52°WAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°ESant Onofre — 40.76°N, 0.59°ETuğlu — 40.42°N, 34.31°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.96°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Muscardinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Muscardinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Muscardinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,375 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Muscardinus, 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

63 references

Each of the 105 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. 51 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Muscardinus

Credit
Danielle Schwarz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Muscardinus avellanarius · mnhn:zm:MO-1993-2973

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaup 1829