Pliopetes
No picture of Pliopetes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pliopetes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pliopetes 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
5 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pliocene66%
- Pleistocene14%
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.
Pliopetes and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pliopetes and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Blarinoides mariae4 sites
- Glis minor4 sites
- Petenyia hungarica4 sites
- Petenyiella4 sites
- Pliopetaurista4 sites
- Baranomys3 sites
- Beremendia fissidens3 sites
- Desmana3 sites
- Episoriculus gibberodon3 sites
- Lacerta3 sites
- Muscardinus pliocaenicus3 sites
- Mustela3 sites
- Ophisaurus3 sites
- Sciurus3 sites
- Alloblarinella europaea2 sites
- Amphidyromys pusillus2 sites
- Anguis fragilis2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Baranogale helbingi2 sites
- Blackia2 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Chiroptera2 sites
- Cricetinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pliopetes, 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
3 references- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary2
- The Pliocene and Pleistocene Sciuridae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Poland2
- Rodentia (Mammalia) des Eichkogels bei Mödling (Niederösterreich) 1. Spalacinae und Castoridae 2. Übersicht über die gesamte Nagetierfauna.1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Pliopetes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pliopetes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliopetes 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 itSciuridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1959