Pliospalax

No picture of Pliospalax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliospalax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpalacinaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Muridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Muridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.3–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.0–5.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.4–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–845 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences845 ka–274 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13.82 Mya2.58 Mya17.4 Mya274 ka

13 occurrences of Pliospalax 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

13 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

6 formations

Lefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EAntonios — 40.50°N, 23.00°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°EGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°E

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The named rock units Pliospalax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliospalax and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pliospalax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pliospalax, 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

12 references

Each of the 13 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 Pliospalax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliospalax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Kormos 1932