Pliophenacomys osborni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliophenacomysPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Pliophenacomys osborni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene58%
- Pleistocene42%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pliophenacomys osborni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliophenacomys osborni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pliophenacomys osborni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Geomys8 sites
- Hibbardomys voorhiesi7 sites
- Hibbardomys marthae6 sites
- Hypolagus voorhiesi6 sites
- Mimomys meadensis5 sites
- Neotoma leucopetrica5 sites
- Ondatra idahoensis5 sites
- Platygonus5 sites
- Plioctomys rinkeri5 sites
- Spermophilus (Otospermophilus) boothi5 sites
- Castor4 sites
- Sigmodon minor4 sites
- Sorex sandersi4 sites
- Guildayomys hibbardi3 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens3 sites
- Reithrodontomys pratincola3 sites
- Spermophilus3 sites
- Zapus sandersi3 sites
- Ambystoma tigrinum2 sites
- Capromeryx2 sites
- Elaphe vulpina2 sites
- Eumeces2 sites
- Hemiauchenia2 sites
- Hypolagus furlongi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pliophenacomys osborni, 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
5 references- Geology and Paleontology of the Early Pleistocene (Late Blancan) White Rock Fauna from North-Central Kansas6
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Arvicolid Rodents of the Early Pleistocene Java Local Fauna from North-Central South Dakota1
- Small mammals of the Seneca and Sappa Local Faunas (post-Ogallala of Nebraska)1
- New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Pliophenacomys osborni 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 Pliophenacomys osborni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliophenacomys osborni 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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What may have been alongside itPliophenacomys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1972