Plioceros floblairi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliocerosPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Plioceros floblairi 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
8 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
- Ash Hollow Formation6
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group2
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The named rock units Plioceros floblairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plioceros floblairi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plioceros floblairi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Pseudhipparion skinneri6 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis5 sites
- Ustatochoerus major5 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides4 sites
- Aphelops megalodus4 sites
- Calippus cerasinus4 sites
- Epicyon haydeni4 sites
- Prodipoides katensis4 sites
- Epicyon saevus3 sites
- Neohipparion trampasense3 sites
- Paratomarctus euthos3 sites
- Pseudoceras skinneri3 sites
- Teleoceras major3 sites
- Cormohipparion occidentale2 sites
- Hypohippus2 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi2 sites
- Macrogenis2 sites
- Protohippus gidleyi2 sites
- Aelurodon stirtoni1 site
- Barbourofelis1 site
- Barbourofelis morrisi1 site
- Calippus regulus1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Carpocyon robustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Plioceros floblairi, 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
2 references- Horned ruminants of North America7
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 8 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 Plioceros floblairi 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 Plioceros floblairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plioceros floblairi 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 itPlioceros through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frick 1937)