Pliosaccomys prowitteorum

Pliosaccomys prowitteorum

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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 4.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 4.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocene9.5–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9 Mya4.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Pliosaccomys prowitteorum 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

1 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

1 formation

Ellensburg — 46.68°N, 120.67°W

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The named rock units Pliosaccomys prowitteorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pliosaccomys prowitteorum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pliosaccomys prowitteorum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pliosaccomys prowitteorum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Pliosaccomys prowitteorum

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pliosaccomys prowitteorum 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.

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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. Martin and Mallory 2011