Sorex

Sorex

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
long-tailed shrewPBDB
Sits inside
SoriciniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 542 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 542 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 85 of 542 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 427 of 542 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 26 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 29 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 64 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 81 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 270 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

542 occurrences of Sorex 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

542 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

32 formations

Glenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 39.00°N, 98.20°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 51.64°N, 0.80°EKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WSappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.69°N, 109.45°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EChikoi — 51.03°N, 106.65°EValdeganga — 39.15°N, 1.67°WReuver clay — 50.92°N, 6.82°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°ELaverne — 36.80°N, 100.50°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°W

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The named rock units Sorex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 447 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sorex and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sorex and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,745 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 320 sites for Sorex, and this reads 240 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

159 references

Each of the 542 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. 147 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Sorex

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itSoricini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758