Pewelagus dawsonae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PewelagusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Pewelagus dawsonae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
18 occurrences- Pliocene61%
- Pleistocene39%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pewelagus dawsonae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pewelagus dawsonae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pewelagus dawsonae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Hodomys13 sites
- Perognathinae11 sites
- Equus9 sites
- Nerterogeomys anzensis9 sites
- Geomyidae8 sites
- Hemiauchenia8 sites
- Sigmodon minor8 sites
- Camelops7 sites
- Platygonus7 sites
- Dipodomys6 sites
- Dipodomys compactus6 sites
- Nerterogeomys garbanii5 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens5 sites
- Sylvilagus hibbardi5 sites
- Borophagus diversidens4 sites
- Hypolagus edensis4 sites
- Peromyscus4 sites
- Sigmodon4 sites
- Titanotylopus4 sites
- Canis lepophagus3 sites
- Capromeryx3 sites
- Erethizon bathygnathum3 sites
- Hypolagus3 sites
- Hypolagus vetus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pewelagus dawsonae, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary13
- The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax4
- Late Tertiary basins and vertebrate faunas along the Nevada-Utah border1
Each of the 18 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 Pewelagus dawsonae 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 Pewelagus dawsonae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pewelagus dawsonae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPewelagus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1984