Proscalops miocaenus
No picture of Proscalops miocaenus 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 Proscalops miocaenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProscalopsPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 24.7 Mya.
3 occurrences of Proscalops miocaenus 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Proscalops miocaenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proscalops miocaenus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Proscalops miocaenus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Herpetotherium fugax3 sites
- Ankylodon annectens2 sites
- Centetodon magnus2 sites
- Hypisodus minimus2 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi2 sites
- Metadjidaumo hendryi2 sites
- Miohippus2 sites
- Palaeolagus burkei2 sites
- Palaeolagus intermedius2 sites
- Adjidaumo1 site
- Agnotocastor1 site
- Allomys1 site
- Altasciurus relictus1 site
- Batrachosauroides1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cedromus wardi1 site
- Centetodon marginalis1 site
- Copedelphys stevensoni1 site
- Diceratherium tridactylum1 site
- Domnina1 site
- Domnina gradata1 site
- Downsimus chadwicki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proscalops miocaenus, 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- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 16. The Cedar Ridge local fauna (late Oligocene)1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Proscalops miocaenus 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 Proscalops miocaenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proscalops miocaenus 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 itProscalops through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1901