Paleptesicus
No picture of Paleptesicus 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 Paleptesicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VespertilionidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Vespertilionidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At least 5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Paleptesicus 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
8 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
1 formation
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group2
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The named rock units Paleptesicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paleptesicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paleptesicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Plesiodimylus chantrei6 sites
- Archaeodesmana vinea5 sites
- Desmanella rietscheli5 sites
- Soricinae5 sites
- Crusafontina endemica4 sites
- Dinosorex engesseri4 sites
- Gerhardstorchia biradicata4 sites
- Lantanotherium sanmigueli4 sites
- Paenelimnoecus repenningi4 sites
- Petenyia dubia4 sites
- Myotis3 sites
- Potamon hegauense3 sites
- Proscapanus minor3 sites
- Rhinolophus grivensis3 sites
- Talpa gilothi3 sites
- Talpa minuta3 sites
- Urotrichus giganteus3 sites
- ? Kerivoula cf. murinoides2 sites
- Blackia miocaenica2 sites
- Dinosorex zapfei2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Galerix2 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata2 sites
- Gastrocopta nouletiana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Paleptesicus, 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
3 references- Insectivores (Lipotyphla) and bats (Chiroptera) from the Late Miocene of Austria5
- Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany)2
- Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia)1
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
Media content0
No picture of Paleptesicus 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 Paleptesicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleptesicus 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 itVespertilionidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zapfe 1970