Parasorex

Parasorex

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GalericinaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 25 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13.82 Mya5.09 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

32 occurrences of Parasorex 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

32 occurrences

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

6 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WLower Unit — 40.12°N, 0.68°WSzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EAlcácer do Sal — 38.38°N, 8.52°W

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The named rock units Parasorex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasorex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parasorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Parasorex, 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

15 references

Each of the 32 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Parasorex

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parasorex 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 itGalericinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1865