Soricoidea

Soricoidea

Gustav Mützel · 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
Sits inside
SoricomorphaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 518 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 92 of 518 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 365 of 518 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 518 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 518 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 20 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 36 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 39 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 34 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 34 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 37 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 32 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 22 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 18 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 19 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 24 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 38 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 77 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 37 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 18 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 16 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya27.3 Mya85 Mya22 Mya

518 occurrences of Soricoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

518 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

85 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 110.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.23°N, 113.63°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WNaran Bulak — 44.62°N, 106.18°ENaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.37°EBorgloon — 50.82°N, 4.82°ECypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WBrule — 42.00°N, 104.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.63°N, 105.30°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ERavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Hill — 50.67°N, 1.54°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.22°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.55°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°E

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The named rock units Soricoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Soricoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Soricoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 287 sites for Soricoidea, 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

186 references

Each of the 518 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. 174 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 content1

Picture of Soricoidea

Credit
Gustav Mützel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Soricoidea 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 itSoricomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872