Pliomys

Pliomys is an extinct genus of voles that inhabited Europe during the Pleistocene epoch.

No picture of Pliomys 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 Pliomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CricetidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 114 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 107 of 114 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 114 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Pliomys on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

114 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

3 formations

Khapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EChoremi — 37.38°N, 22.09°E

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The named rock units Pliomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 111 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliomys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pliomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Pliomys, 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

27 references

Each of the 114 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. 15 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 Pliomys 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 Pliomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliomys 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 itCricetidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Méhely 1914