Pliospalax macoveii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliospalaxPBDB
- 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 most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.55 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pliospalax macoveii 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
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 Pliospalax macoveii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliospalax macoveii and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pliospalax macoveii and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Apodemus2 sites
- Asoriculus gibberodon2 sites
- Erinaceus2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Lacertidae2 sites
- Mesocricetus primitivus2 sites
- Pliopetaurista2 sites
- Testudo2 sites
- Amblycoptus jessiae1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bufo viridis1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Centralomys magnus1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chasmaporthetes kani1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Deinsdorfia kerkhoffi1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Dihoplus megarhinus1 site
- Dolichopithecus1 site
- Dryomimus eliomyoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pliospalax macoveii, 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
3 references- Silata, a new locality with micromammals from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary of the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece1
- Pliocene vertebrate locality of Calta, Ankara, Turkey. 4. Rodentia and Lagomorpha1
- Remarques sur la biostratigraphie du Pliocene du sud de la Plaine Roumanie (Zone de Turni-Magurele)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pliospalax macoveii 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 Pliospalax macoveii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliospalax macoveii 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 itPliospalax through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Simionescu 1930)