Plesiomeryx

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CainotheriinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34.4 Mya22.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Plesiomeryx 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

14 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

1 formation

Quercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.67°E

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The named rock units Plesiomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiomeryx and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Plesiomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Plesiomeryx, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 Plesiomeryx 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 Plesiomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiomeryx 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 itCainotheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais