Proscalopinae
No picture of Proscalopinae 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 Proscalopinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TalpidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 29.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Proscalopinae 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Proscalopinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proscalopinae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Proscalopinae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Adjidaumo1 site
- Archaeocyon pavidus1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Domnina1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Geomyoidea1 site
- Heliscomys1 site
- Leidymys1 site
- Leptauchenia decora1 site
- Leptauchenia major1 site
- Leptomeryx1 site
- Merycoidodon major1 site
- Miniochoerus starkensis1 site
- Palaeolagus1 site
- Palaeolagus burkei1 site
- Paradjidaumo1 site
- Protoceras1 site
- Scottimus lophatus1 site
- Tayassuidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Proscalopinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Macdonald, 19821
- The Mammalian Genera Arctoryctes and Cryptoryctes From the Oligocene and Miocene of North America1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Proscalopinae 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 Proscalopinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proscalopinae 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 itTalpidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1961