Plesiosorex evolutus
No picture of Plesiosorex evolutus 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 Plesiosorex evolutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiosorexPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.1 Mya and 8.725 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plesiosorex evolutus 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
2 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.
Plesiosorex evolutus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plesiosorex evolutus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Archaeodesmana vinea2 sites
- Crusafontina endemica2 sites
- Desmanella rietscheli2 sites
- Dinosorex engesseri2 sites
- Gerhardstorchia biradicata2 sites
- Lantanotherium sanmigueli2 sites
- Paleptesicus2 sites
- Plesiodimylus chantrei2 sites
- Soricinae2 sites
- Urotrichus giganteus2 sites
- Atelerix1 site
- Galericinae indet.1 site
- Metacordylodon schlosseri1 site
- Myotis1 site
- Paenelimnoecus repenningi1 site
- Palerinaceus (Postpalerinaceus) vireti1 site
- Petenyia dubia1 site
- Proscapanus austriacus1 site
- Proscapanus minor1 site
- Talpa gilothi1 site
- Talpa minuta1 site
- Talpa vallesensis1 site
- Talpidae <gen. et sp. indet. I>1 site
- Urotrichini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plesiosorex evolutus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plesiosorex evolutus 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 Plesiosorex evolutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiosorex evolutus 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 itPlesiosorex through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ziegler 2006