Oligoscalops galbreathi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OligoscalopsPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 24.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Oligoscalops galbreathi 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
5 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
2 formations
- Chadron Formation2
- Brule Formation · White River Group2
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The named rock units Oligoscalops galbreathi 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.
Oligoscalops galbreathi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Oligoscalops galbreathi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
187 taxa- Herpetotherium fugax3 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius3 sites
- Altasciurus relictus2 sites
- Ankylodon annectens2 sites
- Archaeotherium mortoni2 sites
- Centetodon marginalis2 sites
- Diplolophus insolens2 sites
- Domnina gradata2 sites
- Ecclesimus tenuiceps2 sites
- Eumys elegans2 sites
- Heliscomys2 sites
- Heptacodon2 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus2 sites
- Hypisodus minimus2 sites
- Ischyromys typus2 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi2 sites
- Noritrimylus compressus2 sites
- Oligomyotis2 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni2 sites
- Proscalops2 sites
- Scottimus ambiguus2 sites
- Stibarus obtusilobus2 sites
- Subhyracodon occidentalis2 sites
- Adjidaumo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Oligoscalops galbreathi, 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
5 references- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation1
- The Mammalian Genera Arctoryctes and Cryptoryctes From the Oligocene and Miocene of North America1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 5 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 Oligoscalops galbreathi 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 Oligoscalops galbreathi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oligoscalops galbreathi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOligoscalops through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1956)