Pliogeomys

No picture of Pliogeomys 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 Pliogeomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GeomyidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Geomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene9.6–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.2–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9 Mya900 ka

12 occurrences of Pliogeomys 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

12 occurrences

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

Glenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Pliogeomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliogeomys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pliogeomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pliogeomys, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 Pliogeomys 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 Pliogeomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliogeomys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGeomyidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1954