Desmatolagus simplex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmatolagusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Desmatolagus simplex on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
17 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Desmatolagus simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Desmatolagus simplex and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Desmatolagus simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Palaeoscaptor acridens11 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus10 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis9 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae9 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis6 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus6 sites
- Gobisorex kingae6 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus6 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus5 sites
- Bohlinotona pusilla5 sites
- Erinaceidae5 sites
- Heosminthus5 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis4 sites
- Aralocricetodon schokensis4 sites
- Bagacricetodon tongi4 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus4 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis4 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus4 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis4 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis4 sites
- Tachyoryctoides4 sites
- Amphechinus minimus3 sites
- Amphitragulus3 sites
- Asianeomys bolligeri3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Desmatolagus simplex, 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
5 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)10
- The most prominent Lagomorpha from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia3
- A Revision of the Early Miocene Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the North Aral Region2
- The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
Each of the 17 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 Desmatolagus simplex 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 Desmatolagus simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmatolagus simplex 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 itDesmatolagus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Argyropulo 1940)