Postcopemys repenningi
No picture of Postcopemys repenningi 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 Postcopemys repenningi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PostcopemysPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Postcopemys repenningi 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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 Postcopemys repenningi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Postcopemys repenningi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Postcopemys repenningi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Bassariscus1 site
- Ictalurus1 site
- Leporidae1 site
- Mimomys (Ogmodontomys)1 site
- Mimomys sawrockensis1 site
- Mollusca1 site
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) vaughani1 site
- Postcopemys maxumensis1 site
- Prodipodomys1 site
- Prodipodomys idahoensis1 site
- Prosigmodon holocuspis1 site
- Repomys maxumi1 site
- Scapanus1 site
- Sigmodon1 site
- Sigmodon minor1 site
- Urodela1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Postcopemys repenningi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Postcopemys repenningi 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 Postcopemys repenningi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Postcopemys repenningi 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 itPostcopemys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindsay and Czaplewski 2011