Soricomorpha

Soricomorpha is a formerly used taxon within the class of mammals. In the past it formed a significant group within the former order Insectivora. However, Insectivora was shown to be polyphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, and Erinaceomorpha, with the four remaining extant and recent families of Soricomorpha shown here then being treated as a separate order. Insectivora was left empty and disbanded.

Soricomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EulipotyphlaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 4111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 95 of 4111 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 617 of 4111 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 424 of 4111 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1093 of 4111 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 491 of 4111 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1329 of 4111 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–61 Mya — about 11 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 53 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 66 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 69 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 88 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 72 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 72 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 72 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 137 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 165 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 120 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 116 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 121 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 95 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 220 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 263 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 240 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 194 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 414 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 1519 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

4,111 occurrences of Soricomorpha 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

4,111 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

300 formations

Bridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°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°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WHsanda Gol — 45.41°N, 101.26°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EHsanda Gol — 45.46°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.00°N, 104.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 46.40°N, 103.30°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.63°N, 105.30°WBrule — 43.76°N, 101.93°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°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°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°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WValentine — 42.90°N, 100.18°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°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°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°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.61°N, 11.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ERunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRunningwater — 42.70°N, 102.10°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WLefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EBorgloon — 50.82°N, 4.82°EReuver clay — 50.92°N, 6.82°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°E

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The named rock units Soricomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 276 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,452 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Soricomorpha and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Soricomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 874 sites for Soricomorpha, 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

871 references

Each of the 4,111 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. 859 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 Soricomorpha

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Soricomorpha was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1910)