Desertiana mira
No picture of Desertiana mira was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Desertiana mira firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Desertiana mira on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Desertiana mira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desertiana mira and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Desertiana mira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Albula lapidosa1 site
- Alectrosaurus1 site
- Alexornithiformes1 site
- Amiinae1 site
- Aralobatrachus robustus1 site
- Asiamericana asiatica1 site
- Aspanlestes aptap1 site
- Belonostomus aciculiferus1 site
- Buckantaus crassidens1 site
- Caenagnathasia martinsoni1 site
- Catenoleimus1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Dzharatitanis kingi1 site
- Elopomorpha1 site
- Eoungulatum kudukensis1 site
- Estesina elegans1 site
- Explorornis1 site
- Explorornis nessovi1 site
- Gobiates asiaticus1 site
- Gobiates dzhyrakudukensis1 site
- Gobiates kizylkumensis1 site
- Gobiates tatarinovi1 site
- Gobiatoides parvus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Desertiana mira, 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 1 occurrence 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 Desertiana mira was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Desertiana mira firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Desertiana mira 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 itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.