Sciuravus bridgeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciuravusPBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sciuravus bridgeri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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 Sciuravus bridgeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sciuravus bridgeri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sciuravus bridgeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Paramys delicatus3 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus2 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus2 sites
- Microsyops elegans2 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum2 sites
- Orohippus pumilus2 sites
- Anaptomorphus aemulus1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apatemys bellus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Baptemys wyomingensis1 site
- Emys wyomingensis1 site
- Harpagolestes macrocephalus1 site
- Herpetotherium innominatum1 site
- Herpetotherium knighti1 site
- Homacodon vagans1 site
- Hyopsodus paulus1 site
- Hyrachyus1 site
- Knightomys depressus1 site
- Knightomys huerfanensis1 site
- Miacidae1 site
- Microparamys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sciuravus bridgeri, 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- Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene1
- West and Dawson, 19731
- The stratigraphy and paleontology of Bridger A1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sciuravus bridgeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Sciuravus bridgeri 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 itSciuravus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1938