Mygalea antiqua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MygaleaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Mygalea antiqua 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
- Ville Formation1
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Mygalea antiqua 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.
Mygalea antiqua and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mygalea antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Anchitherium aurelianense3 sites
- Brachypotherium brachypus3 sites
- Lacerta3 sites
- Ophisaurus3 sites
- Plesiodimylus chantrei3 sites
- Vipera3 sites
- Amphicyonidae2 sites
- Amphimoschus ponteleviensis2 sites
- Amphiperatherium frequens2 sites
- Andrias scheuchzeri2 sites
- Atractoscion2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Chamaeleonidae2 sites
- Chelydropsis murchisoni2 sites
- Clemmydopsis turnauensis2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Dicrocerus elegans2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Dorcatherium crassum2 sites
- Dorcatherium naui2 sites
- Eumyarion weinfurteri2 sites
- Glirudinus2 sites
- Heterosorex2 sites
- Heteroxerus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mygalea antiqua, 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- Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany.1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- Die erst Wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen Braunkohle der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach) [The first vertebrate fauna from the Miocene Ville Series of the Lower Rhine Embayment (Hambach open cast mine, western Germany)]1
- Les mammiferes fossiles recoltes a Sansan au cours du XIXe siecle1
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
Media content0
No picture of Mygalea antiqua 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 Mygalea antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mygalea antiqua 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 itMygalea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1848