Pliozapus solus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliozapusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- 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.
5 occurrences of Pliozapus solus 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pliozapus solus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliozapus solus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliozapus solus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Hypolagus vetus3 sites
- Ochotona spanglei3 sites
- Castor californicus2 sites
- Dinohippus leidyanus2 sites
- Dipoides2 sites
- Epigaulus hatcheri2 sites
- Eucyon davisi2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Hesperogaulus wilsoni2 sites
- Megalonyx curvidens2 sites
- Megatylopus gigas2 sites
- Nannippus2 sites
- Neohipparion eurystyle2 sites
- Onychomys2 sites
- Peromyscus antiquus2 sites
- Pleiolama vera2 sites
- Pliotaxidea nevadensis2 sites
- Promimomys mimus2 sites
- Scalopus2 sites
- Spermophilus2 sites
- Teleoceras2 sites
- Alluvisorex1 site
- Antilocapridae1 site
- Aphelops malacorhinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pliozapus solus, 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
4 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska2
- Martin, 19941
- Hemphillian mammalian assemblage from northeastern Oregon1
- A Pliocene Rodent Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada1
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 Pliozapus solus 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 Pliozapus solus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliozapus solus 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 itPliozapus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1936