Paracryptotis
No picture of Paracryptotis 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 Paracryptotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlarininiPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
14 occurrences of Paracryptotis 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
14 occurrences- Miocene26%
- Pliocene49%
- Pleistocene26%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Paracryptotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracryptotis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Paracryptotis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
262 taxa- Thamnophis6 sites
- Elaphe obsoleta5 sites
- Alilepus vagus4 sites
- Antilocapridae4 sites
- Bensonomys4 sites
- Brachyopsigale dubius4 sites
- Bufo4 sites
- Buisnictis schoffi4 sites
- Canis lepophagus4 sites
- Hypolagus4 sites
- Hypolagus regalis4 sites
- Hypolagus ringoldensis4 sites
- Lampropeltis getulus4 sites
- Mustela rexroadensis4 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) sawrockensis4 sites
- Nerodia4 sites
- Ondatra minor4 sites
- Onychomys gidleyi4 sites
- Agkistrodon3 sites
- Castor californicus3 sites
- Coluber constrictor3 sites
- Colubrinae3 sites
- Crotalus3 sites
- Dipoides3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Paracryptotis, 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
9 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska3
- Late Cenozoic Microtine Rodents from Wyoming and Idaho3
- The Insectivores of the Hagerman Local Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Idaho2
- The first mid-Blancan occurrence of Agriotherium (Ursidae) in North America: a record from Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho1
- Early Pliocene (Blancan) Always Welcome Inn local fauna, Baker City, Oregon1
- Soricids (Mammalia, Insectivora) from the Blufftop Local Fauna, Blancan Ringold Formation of Central Washington, and the Correlation of Ringold Formation Faunas1
- Early Blancan mammals of the Beck Ranch local fauna of Texas1
- Subfamilies and genera of the Soricidae1
- Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas1
Each of the 14 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 Paracryptotis 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 Paracryptotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracryptotis 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 itBlarinini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1950