Protalactaga

No picture of Protalactaga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protalactaga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DipodidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.9 Mya8.725 Mya23.5 Mya4.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Protalactaga 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

9 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

4 formations

Chetougou — 36.85°N, 102.05°EChetougou — 36.34°N, 102.82°EKansu — 36.73°N, 103.40°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°ESuosuoquan — 46.31°N, 88.02°E

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The named rock units Protalactaga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protalactaga and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protalactaga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Protalactaga, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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 Protalactaga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protalactaga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1929