Plesiosminthus olzi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiosminthusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plesiosminthus olzi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Plesiosminthus olzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesiosminthus olzi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plesiosminthus olzi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis4 sites
- Amphilagus magnus4 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis4 sites
- Sinolagomys ulungurensis4 sites
- Heosminthus borrae3 sites
- Heterosminthus firmus3 sites
- Litodonomys lajeensis3 sites
- Sinolagomys major3 sites
- Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus3 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Heterosminthus2 sites
- Litodonomys huangheensis2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor rectus2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis2 sites
- Prodistylomys2 sites
- Rhinocerotidae2 sites
- Tachyoryctoides engesseri2 sites
- Asianeomys dangheensis1 site
- Bellatona1 site
- Bellatona kazakhstanica1 site
- Crocidosoricinae1 site
- Desmatolagus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plesiosminthus olzi, 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
2 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)2
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia2
Each of the 4 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 Plesiosminthus olzi 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 Plesiosminthus olzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiosminthus olzi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlesiosminthus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daxner-Höck et al. 2014