Plithocyon teilhardi
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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plithocyon teilhardi 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plithocyon teilhardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plithocyon teilhardi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plithocyon teilhardi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amphicyon2 sites
- Anchitherium2 sites
- Listriodon2 sites
- Palaeotragus2 sites
- Percrocuta2 sites
- Platybelodon grangeri2 sites
- Alicornops1 site
- Amphicyon zhanxiangi1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Chalicotherium brevirostris1 site
- Dicrocerus1 site
- Euprox1 site
- Gobicyon macrognathus1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Hispanotherium matritense1 site
- Kubanochoerus1 site
- Kubanochoerus gigas1 site
- Leptarctus1 site
- Machairodus1 site
- Martes1 site
- Melodon1 site
- Metailurus1 site
- Micromeryx1 site
- Mionictis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plithocyon teilhardi, 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
2 references- New material of Hispanotherium matritense (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from Laogou of Hezheng County (Gansu, China), with special reference to the Chinese Middle Miocene elasmotheres1
- The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plithocyon teilhardi 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 Plithocyon teilhardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plithocyon teilhardi 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 itPlithocyon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Colbert 1939)