Pogonodon platycopis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PogonodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 24.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pogonodon platycopis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Pogonodon platycopis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pogonodon platycopis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pogonodon platycopis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Agriochoerus guyotianus1 site
- Allomys1 site
- Archaeolagus ennisianus1 site
- Archaeotherium1 site
- Cormocyon copei1 site
- Cynarctoides lemur1 site
- Daphoenus1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Dinaelurus crassus1 site
- Dinictis felina1 site
- Dyticonastis rensbergeri1 site
- Elomeryx armatus1 site
- Eporeodon occidentalis1 site
- Haplomys liolophus1 site
- Heptacodon curtus1 site
- Heptacodon gibbiceps1 site
- Hypertragulus hesperius1 site
- Hypertragulus planiceps1 site
- Leptocyon mollis1 site
- Leptomeryx obliquidens1 site
- Merycoidodon bullatus1 site
- Mesocyon brachyops1 site
- Mesocyon coryphaeus1 site
- Micropternodus morgani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pogonodon platycopis, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Pogonodon platycopis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pogonodon platycopis · AMNH:FM:6938
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPogonodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1879)