Bellatona
No picture of Bellatona was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Bellatona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OchotonidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
12 occurrences of Bellatona on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
12 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 Bellatona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bellatona and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bellatona and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Sinolagomys ulungurensis6 sites
- Amphilagus magnus5 sites
- Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus5 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis4 sites
- Asianeomys dangheensis4 sites
- Litodonomys lajeensis4 sites
- Amphilagus orientalis3 sites
- Amphilagus plicadentis3 sites
- Heterosminthus firmus3 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis3 sites
- Alloptox minor2 sites
- Anchitheriomys2 sites
- Caementodon2 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Crocidosoricinae2 sites
- Desmatolagus2 sites
- Heterosminthus2 sites
- Kherem2 sites
- Kherem hsandgoliensis2 sites
- Litodonomys huangheensis2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens2 sites
- Plesiosminthus2 sites
- Plesiosminthus barsboldi2 sites
- Prodistylomys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Bellatona, 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
4 references- The most prominent Lagomorpha from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia8
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)2
- The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation1
- Neogene micromammals of China1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Bellatona was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bellatona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bellatona 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOchotonidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dawson 1961