Plesiodipus leei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiodipusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- 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.
4 occurrences of Plesiodipus leei 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Plesiodipus leei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesiodipus leei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plesiodipus leei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- <Protolactaga>2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Cricetodon2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Keramidomys2 sites
- Monosaulax2 sites
- Ochotonidae2 sites
- Sciurus2 sites
- Talpidae2 sites
- Alloptox chinghaiensis1 site
- Alloptox gobiensis1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Anomyinae indet.1 site
- Ansomyinae1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Bellatona forsythmajori1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Desmanella1 site
- Dinosorex1 site
- Eumyarion1 site
- Ganocricetodon cheni1 site
- Gomphotherium wimani1 site
- Heterosoricinae1 site
- Leptodontomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plesiodipus leei, 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
3 references- Neogene micromammals of China2
- Cricetid rodents from the middle Miocene Quantougou fauna of Lanzhou, Gansu1
- Miocene mammalian fossils from Xining Basin, Qinghai1
Each 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
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No picture of Plesiodipus leei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plesiodipus leei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlesiodipus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1927