Stenoechinus tantalus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoechinusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Erinaceidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Stenoechinus tantalus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Stenoechinus tantalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenoechinus tantalus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stenoechinus tantalus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Amphechinus horncloudi2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Castoridae2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Herpetotheriidae2 sites
- Leidymys2 sites
- Meniscomys2 sites
- Nanodelphys2 sites
- Niglarodon2 sites
- Paciculus2 sites
- Parvericius montanus2 sites
- Pronodens2 sites
- Proscalops2 sites
- Sciuridae2 sites
- Tenudomys2 sites
- Zapodidae2 sites
- Allomyinae1 site
- Aplodontiidae1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Brachyerix macrotis1 site
- Desmatolagus1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Diceratherium armatum1 site
- Diceratherium radtkei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stenoechinus tantalus, 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
2 references- Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America2
- New North American erinaceine hedgehogs (Mammalia; Insectivora)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Stenoechinus tantalus 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 Stenoechinus tantalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stenoechinus tantalus 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 itStenoechinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rich and Rasmussen 1973