Talpinae

Talpinae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
TalpidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Talpidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Talpidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 362 occurrencesOligocene — about 59 of 362 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 164 of 362 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 362 occurrencesPleistocene — about 103 of 362 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 10 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 17 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 11 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 20 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

362 occurrences of Talpinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

362 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

68 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WLower Freshwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.61°N, 11.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EAral — 46.78°N, 60.50°EDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WAlkali Canyon — 45.72°N, 120.20°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°ETagay Khalagay — 53.15°N, 107.19°EBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WChalk Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WDeer Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°W

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The named rock units Talpinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 224 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Talpinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Talpinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 295 sites for Talpinae, 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

146 references

Each of the 362 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. 134 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 Talpinae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Talpinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fisher von Waldheim 1817