Talpa fossilis

No picture of Talpa fossilis 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 Talpa fossilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TalpaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Talpa
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 32 of 44 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.09 Mya774 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Talpa fossilis 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

44 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

2 formations

Komnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Talpa fossilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Talpa fossilis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Talpa fossilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

479 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Talpa fossilis, 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

11 references

Each of the 44 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 Talpa fossilis 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 Talpa fossilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Talpa fossilis 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itTalpa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petenyi 1864