Sorex scottensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SorexPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.4 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sorex scottensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sorex scottensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sorex scottensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sorex scottensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Microtus pennsylvanicus5 sites
- Microtus ochrogaster4 sites
- Lepus3 sites
- Ondatra zibethicus3 sites
- Sylvilagus3 sites
- Blarina carolinensis2 sites
- Clethrionomys gapperi2 sites
- Geomys2 sites
- Peromyscus2 sites
- Peromyscus berendsensis2 sites
- Peromyscus progressus2 sites
- Spermophilus2 sites
- Spermophilus tridecemlineatus2 sites
- Synaptomys australis2 sites
- Thomomys talpoides2 sites
- Urocitellus richardsonii2 sites
- Anura1 site
- Bison latifrons1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Catostomus1 site
- Chaetodipus hispidus1 site
- Coluber constrictor1 site
- Crotalidae1 site
- Cryptotis parva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sorex scottensis, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Mammals of the Duck Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Kansas2
- Principes et methodes d'une etude moderne des insectivores. Application aux soricidae fossiles1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Sorex scottensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Sorex scottensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sorex scottensis 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 itSorex through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jammot 1972