Plesiogulo

Plesiogulo is a genus of prehistoric carnivore that lived from the Miocene to the Pliocene of Africa, Eurasia, and North America. An ancestral relationship to the wolverine was once suggested, but it is no longer considered likely. However, some authorities still consider it a member of the Guloninae.

Plesiogulo

Jonathan Chen · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GuloniniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mustelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 27 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 33 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13.82 Mya5.09 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

33 occurrences of Plesiogulo 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

33 occurrences

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

14 formations

Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ELukeino — 0.75°N, 35.87°ELukeino — 0.12°N, 34.94°EOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°WAlkali Canyon — 45.84°N, 119.29°WPinole Tuff — 37.97°N, 122.25°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°ELithostratigraphic Unit B — 39.42°N, 22.65°E

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The named rock units Plesiogulo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiogulo and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plesiogulo and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Plesiogulo, 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

22 references

Each of the 33 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Plesiogulo

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plesiogulo 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGulonini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zdansky 1934