Rhinocricetus
No picture of Rhinocricetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rhinocricetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricetidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhinocricetus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene54%
- Pleistocene47%
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.
Rhinocricetus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Rhinocricetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Beremendia fissidens4 sites
- Mimomys4 sites
- Petenyia hungarica4 sites
- Sorex runtonensis4 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Bufo3 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Citellus3 sites
- Crocidura kornfeldi3 sites
- Erinaceus3 sites
- Lagotherium3 sites
- Mustela palermina3 sites
- Ophidia3 sites
- Prospalax3 sites
- Rana3 sites
- Ursus3 sites
- Alopex praeglacialis2 sites
- Baranogale2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Capreolus2 sites
- Desmana nehringi2 sites
- Felidae2 sites
- Felis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhinocricetus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rhinocricetus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rhinocricetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhinocricetus 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1956