Pliolemmus antiquus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliolemmusPBDB
- 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 Pliolemmus antiquus 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Pliolemmus antiquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliolemmus antiquus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pliolemmus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Mimomys (Ogmodontomys) poaphagus3 sites
- Pliopotamys meadensis3 sites
- Sigmodon minor3 sites
- Thamnophis3 sites
- Bensonomys meadensis2 sites
- Camelops2 sites
- Canis lepophagus2 sites
- Geomys quinni2 sites
- Marmotini2 sites
- Mimomys meadensis2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Nannippus peninsulatus2 sites
- Nebraskomys mcgrewi2 sites
- Planisorex dixonensis2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens2 sites
- Procastoroides sweeti2 sites
- Sorex sandersi2 sites
- Taxidea taxus2 sites
- Trigonictis macrodon2 sites
- Antilocapridae1 site
- Blarina brevicauda1 site
- Borophagus diversidens1 site
- Buisnictis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pliolemmus antiquus, 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- Vertebrate fossils from the Meade Formation of southwestern Kansas3
- Kurten and Anderson, 19801
- Hibbard, 19571
- An Early Pleistocene (Blancan) fauna from Nebraska1
Each 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pliolemmus antiquus 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 Pliolemmus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliolemmus antiquus 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 itPliolemmus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1937