Paciculus nebraskensis
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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 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 29.5 Mya to 23.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 31.8 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Paciculus nebraskensis 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
8 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
- Brule Formation2
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Lavaca Flats Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Paciculus nebraskensis 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.
Paciculus nebraskensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Paciculus nebraskensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Gripholagomys lavocati5 sites
- Promylagaulus riggsi5 sites
- Proscalops secundus5 sites
- Herpetotherium youngi4 sites
- Hitonkala macdonaldtau4 sites
- Protospermophilus4 sites
- Alwoodia3 sites
- Archaeolagus primigenius3 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae3 sites
- Nototamias quadratus3 sites
- Palaeocastor3 sites
- Parallomys americanus3 sites
- Proheteromys3 sites
- Schizodontomys harkseni3 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus3 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni2 sites
- Arikareeomys skinneri2 sites
- Centetodon divaricatus2 sites
- Disallomys robustus2 sites
- Domnina2 sites
- Entoptychus grandiplanus2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Eumys brachyodus2 sites
- Eutypomys wilsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paciculus nebraskensis, 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
6 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas2
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska2
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Whitneyan (Middle Oligocene) Cedar Pass Fauna of South Dakota1
- Mammals from the Blue Ash Local Fauna (Late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia Part 5: Family Cricetidae1
- Cricetid rodents of the Kealey Springs Local Fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
- Paciculus (Cricetinae, incertae sedis) teeth from the Miocene of Nebraska1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Paciculus nebraskensis 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 Paciculus nebraskensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paciculus nebraskensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPaciculus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alker 1969