Pliosaccomys dubius
No picture of Pliosaccomys dubius 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 dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliosaccomysPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Geomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pliosaccomys dubius 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pliosaccomys dubius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliosaccomys dubius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliosaccomys dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Alilepus1 site
- Amebelodon1 site
- Aphelops malacorhinus1 site
- Aplodontiidae1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Cosoryx furcatus1 site
- Indarctos1 site
- Leporidae1 site
- Merycodus major1 site
- Nothodipoides planus1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Otospermophilus1 site
- Palaeomerycidae1 site
- Peromyscus antiquus1 site
- Pliauchenia magnifontis1 site
- Pliozapus solus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pliosaccomys dubius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota1
- A Pliocene Rodent Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Pliosaccomys dubius 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 dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliosaccomys dubius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPliosaccomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1936