Paciculus montanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaciculusPBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.1 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 16.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Paciculus montanus 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Paciculus montanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paciculus montanus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Paciculus montanus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Castoridae4 sites
- Leidymys3 sites
- Protospermophilus3 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni2 sites
- Amphechinus horncloudi2 sites
- Florentiamys tiptoni2 sites
- Geomyoidea2 sites
- Gregorymys formosus2 sites
- Gripholagomys2 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi2 sites
- Palaeocastor fossor2 sites
- Parvericius2 sites
- Plesiosminthus grangeri2 sites
- Proscalops secundus2 sites
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Centetodon magnus1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Dikkomys matthewi1 site
- Enhydrocyon pahinsintewakpa1 site
- Entoptychus fieldsi1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Eutypomys montanensis1 site
- Gregorymys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paciculus montanus, 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- Monroe Creek (early Miocene) microfossils from the Wounded Knee area, South Dakota2
- Discovery of Oligocene-aged mammals in Glacier National Park (Kishenehn Formation), Montana1
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska1
- Small mammals from the Miocene Batesland Formation of South Dakota1
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 Paciculus montanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paciculus montanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPaciculus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Black 1961