Plesippus idahoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesippusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Equinae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Equinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Plesippus idahoensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
21 occurrences- Pliocene46%
- Pleistocene54%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Plesippus idahoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesippus idahoensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Plesippus idahoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Equus5 sites
- Hemiauchenia5 sites
- Odocoileus lucasi4 sites
- Ondatra idahoensis4 sites
- Homotherium idahoensis3 sites
- Leporidae3 sites
- Mictomys vetus3 sites
- Ophiomys parvus3 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Castor californicus2 sites
- Equus giganteus2 sites
- Euceratherium collinum2 sites
- Felidae2 sites
- Hypolagus furlongi2 sites
- Megalonychidae2 sites
- Megalonyx2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Proboscidea2 sites
- Stegomastodon mirificus2 sites
- Borophagus diversidens1 site
- Canini1 site
- Dipodomys1 site
- Erethizon bathygnathum1 site
- Erethizon cascoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Plesippus idahoensis, 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- Additional Late Cenozoic (latest Hemphillian to earliest Irvingtonian) mammals from Douglas County, Nevada13
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- Biostratigraphy of the Hunter Creek Sandstone, Verdi Basin, Washoe County, Nevada1
- Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene–Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns1
- The Early Pleistocene (Latest Blancan-Earliest Irvingtonian) Froman Ferry Fauna and History of the Glenns Ferry Formation, Southwestern Idaho1
- Blancan mammalian fauna and Pleistocene formations, Hudspeth County, Texas1
- New Mammalia From the Idaho Formation1
Each of the 21 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 Plesippus idahoensis 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 Plesippus idahoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesippus idahoensis 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 itPlesippus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1918)