Pliopentalagus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeporidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
8 occurrences of Pliopentalagus 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
8 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene28%
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.
Pliopentalagus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pliopentalagus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Mimomys6 sites
- Orientalomys6 sites
- Cricetidae5 sites
- Germanomys5 sites
- Ochotona5 sites
- Muridae4 sites
- Nannocricetus4 sites
- Prosiphneus4 sites
- Hypolagus3 sites
- Sminthoides3 sites
- Sorex3 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Beremendia2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Paenelimnoecus2 sites
- Pliopetaurista2 sites
- Soricidae2 sites
- Amblycoptus1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Blackia1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Desmana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pliopentalagus, 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- A preliminary report on the Late Pliocene Micromammalian fauna from Yangyuan and Yuxian, Hebei5
- The status of the genus name Parapodemus SCHAUB, 1938; new data bearing on an old controversy1
- Neogene micromammals of China1
- Remarques sur la biostratigraphie du Pliocene du sud de la Plaine Roumanie (Zone de Turni-Magurele)1
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
Media content0
No picture of Pliopentalagus 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 Pliopentalagus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliopentalagus 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 itLeporidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gureev and Konkova 1964