Nannocricetus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- 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 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 6.965 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
13 occurrences of Nannocricetus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene7%
- Pliocene62%
- Pleistocene31%
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 Nannocricetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nannocricetus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Nannocricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Mimomys10 sites
- Ochotona10 sites
- Orientalomys10 sites
- Cricetidae9 sites
- Prosiphneus9 sites
- Muridae8 sites
- Germanomys7 sites
- Sminthoides7 sites
- Soricidae6 sites
- Apodemus5 sites
- Hypolagus5 sites
- Sorex5 sites
- Beremendia4 sites
- Pliopentalagus4 sites
- Eucastor3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Aratomys bilikeensis2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Paenelimnoecus2 sites
- Paralactaga2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Trischizolagus mirificus2 sites
- Aepyosciurus sp.1 site
- Allorattus engesseri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Nannocricetus, 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- A preliminary report on the Late Pliocene Micromammalian fauna from Yangyuan and Yuxian, Hebei9
- Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores2
- The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha)1
- Neogene micromammals of China1
Each of the 13 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 Nannocricetus 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 Nannocricetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nannocricetus 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1934