Tetracus nanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetracusPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Tetracus nanus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
12 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
1 formation
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group1
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The named rock units Tetracus nanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tetracus nanus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tetracus nanus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Anguini7 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum4 sites
- Coluber cadurci4 sites
- Cordylidae4 sites
- Eomys antiquus4 sites
- Glamys priscus4 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus4 sites
- Nimravus intermedius4 sites
- Schizogliravus micio4 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi4 sites
- Amphiperatherium ambiguum3 sites
- Amphisbaenidae3 sites
- Anguis3 sites
- Bachitherium curtum3 sites
- Bransatoglis3 sites
- Butseloglis tenuis3 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali3 sites
- Issiodoromys medius3 sites
- Necrosaurus3 sites
- Palaeosciurus goti3 sites
- Paratheridomys margaritae3 sites
- Paroxacron3 sites
- Peratherium elegans3 sites
- Platyspondylia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tetracus nanus, 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
6 references- Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocene, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertebres. 4. Marsupiaux et insectivores.5
- Les Insectivores des Phosphorites du Quercy. [Insectivores of the Quercy Phosphorites].3
- Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia)1
- Insectivores (Mammalia) from the earliest Oligocene (MP 21) of Belgium1
- Coyrou 1-2, une nouvelle faune de mammifères des phosphorites du Quercy, niveau intermédiaire (MP2O-21) proche de la "Grande Coupure"1
- Les grands mammifères chefs de file de l'immigration oligocène et le problème de la limite Eocene-Oligocene en Europe.1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Tetracus nanus 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 Tetracus nanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetracus nanus 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 itTetracus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aymard 1846)