Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Pleurolicus ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827865	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827865
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41665	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41665

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Geomyidae : Pleurolicus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
superfamily	Geomyoidea	Bonaparte 1845
family	Geomyidae	Bonaparte 1845
genus	Pleurolicus	Cope 1878

Scientific Name

Pleurolicus Cope, 1878

Name Published In

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 18

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pleurolicus	genus	belongs to Saccomyidae	stated with evidence	Cope, 1878
Pleurolicus	genus	belongs to Saccomyidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1879
Pleurolicus	genus	belongs to Geomyidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Pleurolicus	genus	belongs to Entoptychinae	stated with evidence	Korth, 1996
Pleurolicus	genus	belongs to Geomyidae	stated with evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

30.8 - 26.3 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

browser (based on Geomyidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1878. On some of the characters of the Miocene fauna of Oregon. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 18(102):63-78

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Grangerimus dakotensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	30.8 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene
Grangerimus sellardsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	24.8 Ma Oligocene	24.8 Ma Oligocene
Pleurolicus clasoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	30.8 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene
Pleurolicus dakotensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	30.8 Ma Oligocene	26.3 Ma Oligocene
Pleurolicus exiguus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	24.8 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pleurolicus hemingfordensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pleurolicus sulcifrons ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	30.8 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Grangerimus Wood, 1936	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Geomyidae : *Grangerimus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1878	Pleurolicus Cope
1879	Pleurolicus Cope p. 45
1902	Pleurolicus Hay p. 731
1936	Grangerimus Wood
1996	Pleurolicus Korth p. 781
1997	Pleurolicus McKenna and Bell

References

Cope E. D. On some of the characters of the Miocene fauna of Oregon, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 18 102, 63-78

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Wood A. E. (1936) Geomyid rodents from the Middle Tertiary, American Museum Novitates 866

Korth W. W. (1996) A New Species of Pleurolocus (Rodentia, Geomyidae) from the Early Miocene (Arikareean) of Nebraska, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 4, 781-784 doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011367

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 18 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Obsolete Names Synonymy List References

Go to top of page