Plioctomys rinkeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlioctomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Plioctomys rinkeri on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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.
Plioctomys rinkeri and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Plioctomys rinkeri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Geomys6 sites
- Hibbardomys voorhiesi5 sites
- Neotoma leucopetrica5 sites
- Pliophenacomys osborni5 sites
- Castor4 sites
- Hibbardomys marthae4 sites
- Hypolagus voorhiesi4 sites
- Mimomys meadensis4 sites
- Ondatra idahoensis4 sites
- Platygonus4 sites
- Sigmodon minor4 sites
- Sorex sandersi4 sites
- Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) boothi4 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens3 sites
- Blarina brevicauda2 sites
- Nebraskomys mcgrewi2 sites
- Onychomys2 sites
- Perognathus pearlettensis2 sites
- Prodipodomys2 sites
- Reithrodontomys pratincola2 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus2 sites
- Zapus sandersi2 sites
- Canidae1 site
- Capromeryx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plioctomys rinkeri, 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 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Plioctomys rinkeri 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 Plioctomys rinkeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plioctomys rinkeri 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 itPlioctomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hibbard 1956)