Scapanus latimanus

The northern broad-footed mole is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to the United States, where it is found in northern California, Nevada and Oregon at elevations up to 9,800 feet (3,000 m) above sea level.

Scapanus latimanus

Scapanus_latimanus.jpg : Sarah Murray derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
broad-footed molePBDB
Sits inside
ScapanusPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Scapanus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.4 Mya129 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Scapanus latimanus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12 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

3 formations

La Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WRiverbank — 38.60°N, 121.50°WMontezuma — 37.99°N, 121.71°W

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The named rock units Scapanus latimanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scapanus latimanus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Scapanus latimanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Scapanus latimanus, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Scapanus latimanus

Credit
Scapanus_latimanus.jpg : Sarah Murray derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Scapanus latimanus 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itScapanus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bachman 1842)