Paratalpa micheli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParatalpaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 22.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Paratalpa micheli 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
10 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
1 formation
- Lower Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group2
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The named rock units Paratalpa micheli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paratalpa micheli and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Paratalpa micheli and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Amphiperatherium exile5 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus5 sites
- Pseudocricetodon thaleri5 sites
- Adelomyarion vireti4 sites
- Bransatoglis fugax4 sites
- Dimyloides4 sites
- Geotrypus4 sites
- Heteroxerus4 sites
- Peridyromys murinus4 sites
- Pseudotheridomys4 sites
- Archaeomys3 sites
- Bransatoglis concavidens3 sites
- Desmanella3 sites
- Dracaenosaurus croizeti3 sites
- Eomyodon mayoi3 sites
- Eucricetodon longidens3 sites
- Galericinae3 sites
- Microdyromys monspeliensis3 sites
- Percymygale minor3 sites
- Quercysorex ulmensis3 sites
- Rhodanomys transiens3 sites
- Amphechinus arvernensis2 sites
- Amphilagus2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Paratalpa micheli, 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- Moles (Talpidae, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene karstic fissure fillings in South Germany3
- Marsupialia und Insectivora (Mammalia) aus den oberoligozänen Spaltenfüllungen Herrlingen 8 und Herrlingen 9 bei Ulm (Baden-Württemberg)2
- The Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) of Eggingen-Mittelhart (Baden-Württemberg, F.R.G.) with special reference to the Paratalpa-Desmanodon lineage.2
- Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon1
- Latest Oligocene Didelphimorpha, Lipotyphla, Rodentia and Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from Oberleichtersbach, Rhön Mountains, Germany1
- Les micromammifères de l'Oligocène supérieur des calcaires de Hinojosa de Jarque (Montalban-Aliaga, Teruel, Espangne)1
Each of the 10 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.
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No picture of Paratalpa micheli 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 Paratalpa micheli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paratalpa micheli 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.
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What may have been alongside itParatalpa through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lavocat 1951