Pewelagus mexicanus
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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 3.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pewelagus mexicanus 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pewelagus mexicanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pewelagus mexicanus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pewelagus mexicanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Aluralagus bensonensis1 site
- Blancocamelus meadei1 site
- Borophagus diversidens1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Capromeryx tauntonensis1 site
- Citellus matachicensis1 site
- Glossotherium garbanii1 site
- Glyptotherium texanum1 site
- Gomphotheriidae1 site
- Hemiauchenia blancoensis1 site
- Hemiauchenia gracilis1 site
- Hexobelomeryx fricki1 site
- Machairodus1 site
- Megatylopus1 site
- Miracinonyx studeri1 site
- Mustelidae1 site
- Nannippus peninsulatus1 site
- Neochoerus1 site
- Notolagus velox1 site
- Paenemarmota1 site
- Paranotolagus complicatus1 site
- Phugatherium dichroplax1 site
- Platygonus1 site
- Plesippus simplicidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pewelagus mexicanus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Pewelagus mexicanus 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 mexicanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pewelagus mexicanus 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 itPewelagus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1982)