Priusaulax
No picture of Priusaulax 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 Priusaulax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HystricopiniPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Priusaulax 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
4 formations
- Runningwater Formation2
- "middle Miocene" Formation1
- Wildcat Hills Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Priusaulax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Priusaulax and its relatives
MioceneWhere Priusaulax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Cynarctoides acridens3 sites
- Barbouromeryx2 sites
- Hesperhys2 sites
- Menoceras2 sites
- Parahippus pawniensis2 sites
- Acris1 site
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Alwoodia1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Andrias matthewi1 site
- Angustidens vireti1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Arretotherium acridens1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Cephalogale1 site
- Charina prebottae1 site
- Cracidae1 site
- Cursoricoccyx geraldinae1 site
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) niobrarensis1 site
- Desmocyon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Priusaulax, 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- Earliest castoridine beaver (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Late Arikareean (Early Miocene) of Nebraska3
- A new tribe of castoroidine beavers from the late Arikareean to Hemphillian (Oligocene–Miocene) of western North America2
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Priusaulax 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 Priusaulax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Priusaulax 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHystricopini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.