Sorex taylori
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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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Sorex taylori 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene56%
- Pleistocene44%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sorex taylori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sorex taylori and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Sorex taylori and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Platygonus7 sites
- Sigmodon minor7 sites
- Antilocapridae5 sites
- Liomys centralis4 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) quadriplicata4 sites
- Notolagus lepusculus4 sites
- Perognathus pearlettensis4 sites
- Scalopus rexroadi4 sites
- Bensonomys eliasi3 sites
- Canis lepophagus3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Felis rexroadensis3 sites
- Geomys3 sites
- Geomys (Nerterogeomys) minor3 sites
- Mimomys (Ogmodontomys) poaphagus3 sites
- Nannippus peninsulatus3 sites
- Onychomys gidleyi3 sites
- Perognathus rexroadensis3 sites
- Peromyscus kansasensis3 sites
- Pratilepus kansasensis3 sites
- Spermophilus3 sites
- Spilogale rexroadi3 sites
- Symmetrodontomys simplicidens3 sites
- Agkistrodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sorex taylori, 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
5 references- Hibbard, 19703
- Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas2
- Cricetid and arvicolid rodents of the California wash local fauna, late Blancan of the san Pedro Valley, Arizona1
- Early Blancan mammals of the Beck Ranch local fauna of Texas1
- An Upper Pliocene Fauna from Meade County, Kansas1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Sorex taylori was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sorex taylori, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1937