Pliotaxidea

Pliotaxidea

BUTTERWORTH · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
badgerPBDB
Sits inside
TaxidiinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 22 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

22 occurrences of Pliotaxidea 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

22 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

13 formations

Ogallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WDrewsey — 42.70°N, 118.70°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WTruckee — 39.25°N, 118.85°WThousand Creek — 41.10°N, 117.80°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WEllensburg — 46.68°N, 120.67°W

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The named rock units Pliotaxidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliotaxidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pliotaxidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pliotaxidea, 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

16 references

Each of the 22 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. 4 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

Media content2

Picture of Pliotaxidea

Source
GBIF
Credit
BUTTERWORTH
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pliotaxidea garberi · UCMP:V:52422

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTaxidiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1944