Plesiosorex

No picture of Plesiosorex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Plesiosorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlesiosoricidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 53 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.7–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.6–5.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.8–5.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.0–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.04 Mya9.4 Mya27.8 Mya4.2 Mya

53 occurrences of Plesiosorex 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

53 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

19 formations

Valentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WBatesland — 43.20°N, 101.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WFort Randall — 43.49°N, 99.27°WEsmeralda — 37.96°N, 118.03°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°ECalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WImnaha Basalt — 46.00°N, 116.70°WDeer Butte — 43.60°N, 117.50°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°ERunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EMonarch Mill — 39.20°N, 117.90°WTagay Khalagay — 53.15°N, 107.19°EEllensburg — 46.50°N, 120.40°W

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The named rock units Plesiosorex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiosorex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plesiosorex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,330 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Plesiosorex, 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

34 references

Each of the 53 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. 22 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 content0

No picture of Plesiosorex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Plesiosorex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiosorex 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.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1848