Plesiosorex schaffneri
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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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.75 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plesiosorex schaffneri 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plesiosorex schaffneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesiosorex schaffneri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plesiosorex schaffneri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Spermophilinus bredai4 sites
- Anomalomys gaudryi3 sites
- Blackia miocaenica3 sites
- Eumyarion latior3 sites
- Microtocricetus molassicus3 sites
- Semigenetta3 sites
- Albanensia grimmi2 sites
- Amphilagus2 sites
- Chelotriton2 sites
- Clemmydopsis2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum2 sites
- Dorcatherium2 sites
- Dorcatherium naui2 sites
- Eomuscardinus sansaniensis2 sites
- Eomyops2 sites
- Euprox furcatus2 sites
- Eurolagus2 sites
- Hoploaceratherium2 sites
- Latonia gigantea2 sites
- Leptodontomys2 sites
- Leuciscus2 sites
- Listriodon splendens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plesiosorex schaffneri, 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
4 references- A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans1
- The insectivores (Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominoid locality Rudabánya1
- Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns1
- Die obermiozäne Säugetierfauna von Anwil (Baselland); (The Upper Miocene mammalian fauna of Anwil, Baselland)1
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
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No picture of Plesiosorex schaffneri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 schaffneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiosorex schaffneri 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 itPlesiosorex through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engesser 1972