Pleurolestodon
No picture of Pleurolestodon 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 Pleurolestodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MylodontinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pleurolestodon 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Pleurolestodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleurolestodon and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pleurolestodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Ampularia sp.1 site
- Angiospermata indet.1 site
- Anodontites1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Caiman1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Doellotatus chapadmalensis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gliptodontidae indet.1 site
- Kraglievichia1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Palaeocavia1 site
- Pithanotomys1 site
- Pithanotomys solisae1 site
- Plohophorus1 site
- Salvinia1 site
- Sigmodontinae1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Xotodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pleurolestodon, 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
2 references- The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange1
- The late Miocene climatic change - persistence of a climatic signal through the orogenic stratigraphic record in northwestern Argentina1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pleurolestodon 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 Pleurolestodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurolestodon 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 itMylodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rovereto 1914