Gomphotherium wimani
No picture of Gomphotherium wimani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gomphotherium wimani itself, so it was not used. 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 Gomphotherium wimani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GomphotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Gomphotherium
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Gomphotherium
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gomphotherium wimani 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Gomphotherium wimani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gomphotherium wimani and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gomphotherium wimani and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Micromeryx2 sites
- Alloptox chinghaiensis1 site
- Bunolistriodon minheensis1 site
- Gomphotherium connexus1 site
- Heterosminthus orientalis1 site
- Listriodon1 site
- Oioceros noverca1 site
- Paracricetulus1 site
- Paralactaga anderssoni1 site
- Plesiocricetodon1 site
- Plesiodipus leei1 site
- Protalactaga1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gomphotherium wimani, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Miocene mammalian fossils from Xining Basin, Qinghai3
- The Chinese Neogene - a preliminary review of the mammalian localities and faunas1
Each 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
Media content0
No picture of Gomphotherium wimani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gomphotherium wimani itself, so it was not used.
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 Gomphotherium wimani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gomphotherium wimani was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itGomphotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hopwood 1935