Plithocyon barstowensis
No picture of Plithocyon barstowensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Plithocyon barstowensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Plithocyon barstowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlithocyonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ursidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Plithocyon barstowensis 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Plithocyon barstowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plithocyon barstowensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plithocyon barstowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Aelurodon asthenostylus1 site
- Aphelops megalodus1 site
- Dyseohyus fricki1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Ischyrocyon1 site
- Leptocyon leidyi1 site
- Mediochoerus mohavensis1 site
- Megahippus mckennai1 site
- Merycodus joraki1 site
- Microtomarctus conferta1 site
- Paratomarctus temerarius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Plithocyon barstowensis, 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 referenceEach 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 content0
No picture of Plithocyon barstowensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Plithocyon barstowensis itself, so it was not used.
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 Plithocyon barstowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plithocyon barstowensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itPlithocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frick 1926)