Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlagiolophusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Plagiolophus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Plagiolophus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plagiolophus
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Alligator hantoniensis2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Emys2 sites
- Insectivora2 sites
- Lepisosteus2 sites
- Palaeotherium2 sites
- Planorbis2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Quercygale2 sites
- Spalacodon sp. n. gen.2 sites
- Allaeochelys delheidi1 site
- Alopias exigua1 site
- Amphiperatherium1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Ancylus1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anoplotherium1 site
- Anoplotherium commune1 site
- Anthracotherium1 site
- Anthracotherium magnum1 site
- Argillotherium toliapicum1 site
- Bachitherium curtum1 site
- Calamagras1 site
- Carcharhinus elongatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium), 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
4 references- On the Tertiary Beds of Hordwell, Hampshire2
- Découverte d'une faune de vertébrés dans l'Oligocène inférieur de Vayres-sur-Essone (bassin de Paris, France): biodiversité et paléoenvironnement1
- Contribution a la connaissance des phosphorites du Quercy1
- On the fossil remains of Mammalia referable to the genus Palaeotherium, and to two genera, Paloplotherium and Dichodon, hitherto undefined: from the Eocene Sand at Hordle, Hampshire1
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. 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
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No picture of Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plagiolophus (Paloplotherium) 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 itPlagiolophus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.