Nothodipoides planus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NothodipoidesPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Nothodipoides planus 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
11 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
5 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Valentine Formation1
- Laverne Formation1
- Alachua Formation1
- Tesuque Formation1
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The named rock units Nothodipoides planus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nothodipoides planus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nothodipoides planus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
261 taxa- Archaeolaginae4 sites
- Cosoryx furcatus4 sites
- Epicyon saevus4 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum4 sites
- Aphelops megalodus3 sites
- Calippus martini3 sites
- Cormohipparion occidentale3 sites
- Domninoides mimicus3 sites
- Hipparion tehonense3 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi3 sites
- Longirostromeryx wellsi3 sites
- Mylagaulidae3 sites
- Pliauchenia magnifontis3 sites
- Pliohippus3 sites
- Procamelus grandis3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Teleoceras major3 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus3 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides2 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Alilepus2 sites
- Calippus2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Copemys pisinnus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Nothodipoides planus, 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
8 references- The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota3
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska2
- The skull of Nothodipoides (Castoridae, Rodentia) and the occurrence of fossorial adaptations in beavers1
- Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Late Clarendonian (Miocene) Ash Hollow Formation, Brown County, Nebraska1
- Fossil mammals from a late Miocene (Clarendonian) site in Beaver County, Oklahoma1
- Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico1
- Geology and paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the Late Miocene of Florida1
- Lower Pliocene Vertebrate Fossils from the Ogallala Formation (Lavern Zone) of Beaver County, Oklahoma1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1

Picture of Nothodipoides planus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Nothodipoides planus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNothodipoides through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stirton 1935)