Pseudobassaris riggsi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudobassarisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pseudobassaris riggsi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Pseudobassaris riggsi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pseudobassaris riggsi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Anguini2 sites
- Lophiomeryx chalaniati2 sites
- Neurogymnurus cayluxi2 sites
- Ophisaurus roqueprunensis2 sites
- Peratherium elegans2 sites
- Platyspondylia2 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis2 sites
- Sciurodon cadurcensis2 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi2 sites
- Theridomys ludensis2 sites
- Agamidae1 site
- Amphiperatherium exile1 site
- Amphiperatherium minutum1 site
- Anguis1 site
- Anthracotherium magnum1 site
- Archaeotrogon zitteli1 site
- Bachitherium curtum1 site
- Bachitherium insigne1 site
- Bavarioboa1 site
- Bransateryx vireti1 site
- Coluber cadurci1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
- Cynodictis peignei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pseudobassaris riggsi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Pseudobassaris riggsi
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudobassaris riggsi 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 itPseudobassaris through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pohle 1917