Pliolestes venetus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliolestesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Caenolestidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pliolestes venetus 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pliolestes venetus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pliolestes venetus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pliolestes venetus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Aspidocalyptus castroi2 sites
- Chasicotatus ameghinoi2 sites
- Coscinocercus2 sites
- Diplasiotherium pampa2 sites
- Hemihegetotherium achataleptum2 sites
- Paedotherium2 sites
- Paedotherium minor2 sites
- Pampamys emmonsae2 sites
- Proscelidodon gracillimus2 sites
- Protabrocoma antiqua2 sites
- Thylamys pinei2 sites
- Thylatheridium hudsoni2 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus2 sites
- Argyrolagus rusconii1 site
- Cardiatherium1 site
- Chasichimys1 site
- Chasichimys scagliai1 site
- Chorobates villosissimus1 site
- Dasypodidae1 site
- Doellotatus inornatus1 site
- Dolicavia1 site
- Eosclerocalyptus1 site
- Hesperocynus1 site
- Hoplophorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pliolestes venetus, 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
2 references- Los marsupiales (Mammalia) del Mioceno Superior de la Formacion Cerro Azul(Provincia de La Pampa, Argentina)2
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Late Miocene of central Argentina: Evidence from rodents and taphonomy1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Pliolestes venetus 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 Pliolestes venetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliolestes venetus 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.
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What may have been alongside itPliolestes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goin et al. 2000