Pliometanastes

Pliometanastes is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae endemic to North America during the Late Miocene epoch through very early Pliocene epoch. Its fossils have been found in Costa Rica and across the southern United States from California to Florida.

No picture of Pliometanastes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliometanastes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalonychinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Megalonychidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Megalonychidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 633 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene9.6–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.2–6.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.333 Mya – 4.7 Mya9.9 Mya900 ka

13 occurrences of Pliometanastes on record. 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

13 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

6 formations

Alachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WCaliente — 35.30°N, 118.50°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°W

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The named rock units Pliometanastes 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.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pliometanastes, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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 Pliometanastes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliometanastes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliometanastes was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hirschfeld and Webb 1968