Heosminthus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipodidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
109 occurrences of Heosminthus 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
109 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Heosminthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heosminthus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heosminthus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Bohlinosminthus parvulus23 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus22 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis21 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus20 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus19 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens18 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis18 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis16 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus16 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius15 sites
- Desmatolagus15 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus15 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi15 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis14 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis12 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus12 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis12 sites
- Gobisorex kingae11 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae11 sites
- Cricetops dormitor10 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis10 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi10 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex10 sites
- Erinaceidae10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Heosminthus, 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
10 references- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia68
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)18
- New zapodids (Rodentia) from Oligocene-Miocene deposits in Mongolia. Part 110
- Dipodidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia5
- Rodent paleocommunities from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)2
- Plesiosminthus (Zapodidae, Mammalia) from China and Mongolia: migrations to Europe2
- New dipodid rodents from the Late Eocene of Erden Obo (Nei Mongol, China)1
- A rodent assemblage from the Eo/Oligocene boundary interval near Süngülü, Lesser Caucasus, Turkey1
- A late Eocene eomyid rodent from the Zaysan Basin of Kazakhstan1
- Discovery of early medial Oligocene mammalian fauna from Kekeamu, Alxa Left Banner, Nei Mongol1
Each of the 109 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.
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No picture of Heosminthus 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 Heosminthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heosminthus 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.
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What may have been alongside itDipodidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1985