Pliosaccomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeomyidaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
16 occurrences of Pliosaccomys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Drewsey Formation2
- Juntura Formation1
- Chalk Butte Formation1
- Coal Valley Formation1
- Thousand Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Pliosaccomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliosaccomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliosaccomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Spermophilus7 sites
- Camelidae6 sites
- Archaeolaginae5 sites
- Hypolagus vetus5 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni4 sites
- Epicyon haydeni4 sites
- Megatylopus4 sites
- Microtoscoptes disjunctus4 sites
- Neohipparion leptode4 sites
- Peromyscus antiquus4 sites
- Tayassuinae4 sites
- Teleoceras4 sites
- Teleoceras fossiger4 sites
- Alforjas3 sites
- Anouroneomys magnus3 sites
- Aphelops malacorhinus3 sites
- Aphelops mutilus3 sites
- Borophagus3 sites
- Copemys3 sites
- Dinohippus spectans3 sites
- Diprionomys parvus3 sites
- Eucyon davisi3 sites
- Lemoynea biradicularis3 sites
- Megalonychidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pliosaccomys, 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
10 references- Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho4
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska3
- Lagomorpha and Rodentia of the early Hemphillian (late Miocene) Mulholland localities, Contra Costa County, California, USA2
- Vertebrate Paleontology of the late Miocene (Hemphillian) Wilbur Locality of Central Washington1
- Owyhee bones: Hemphillian (latest Miocene) Little Jacks Creek (LJC) and Sugar Creek (SC) terrestrial local faunas of the western Snake River Plain, Owyhee County, Idaho1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Stop 15: Early Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles1
- Geology of the Garns Mountain Quadrangle Bonneville, Madison, and Teton Counties, Idaho1
- The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota1
- A Pliocene Rodent Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada1
Each of the 16 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pliosaccomys sp. · UCMP:V:77503
No picture of Pliosaccomys 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 Pliosaccomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGeomyidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1936