Pliopetaurista

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciuridaePBDB
Diet
granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.725 Mya3.55 Mya12.1 Mya1.3 Mya

32 occurrences of Pliopetaurista 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

32 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

Lefkon — 41.13°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EProlemais — 40.46°N, 21.78°EProlemais — 40.50°N, 21.74°EAlhambra — 37.24°N, 3.61°WGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°E

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The named rock units Pliopetaurista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliopetaurista and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pliopetaurista and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Pliopetaurista, 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

22 references

Each of the 32 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Pliopetaurista 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.

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What may have been alongside itSciuridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1962