Plesispermophilus macrodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesispermophilusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Aplodontiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plesispermophilus macrodon 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Plesispermophilus macrodon and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Plesispermophilus macrodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Dremotherium guthi2 sites
- Eomys2 sites
- Eomys zitteli2 sites
- Microdyromys praemurinus2 sites
- Peridyromys murinus2 sites
- Adelpharctos ginsburgi1 site
- Amphictis1 site
- Amphictis ambigua1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Amphitragulus quercyi1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Archaeomys1 site
- Babameryx engesseri1 site
- Bachitherium lavocati1 site
- Bavarioboa crocheti1 site
- Bransateryx vireti1 site
- Chelydropsis1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
- Cyonarctos dessei1 site
- Dremotherium quercyi1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Eomyodon pusillus1 site
- Eomyodon volkeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plesispermophilus macrodon, 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
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 Plesispermophilus macrodon was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Plesispermophilus macrodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesispermophilus macrodon 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 itPlesispermophilus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt-Kittler and Vianey-Liaud 1979