Postcopemys vasquezi
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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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 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 vasquezi 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- Miocene22%
- Pliocene52%
- Pleistocene27%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Postcopemys vasquezi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Postcopemys vasquezi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Postcopemys vasquezi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Postcopemys valensis3 sites
- Bensonomys arizonae2 sites
- Cupidinimus bidahochiensis2 sites
- Geomyidae2 sites
- Hypolagus2 sites
- Myotis2 sites
- Paronychomys2 sites
- Paronychomys lemredfieldi2 sites
- Perognathinae2 sites
- Adelphailurus1 site
- Agriotherium1 site
- Alforjas1 site
- Antrozous1 site
- Bassariscus1 site
- Bensonomys coffeyi1 site
- Bensonomys gidleyi1 site
- Borophagus parvus1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Cricetinae1 site
- Dinohippus leidyanus1 site
- Dipodomys gidleyi1 site
- Dipodomys kansensis1 site
- Eptesicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Postcopemys vasquezi, 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
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 vasquezi 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 Postcopemys vasquezi, 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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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. (Jacobs 1977)