Heosminthus minutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeosminthusPBDB
- 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Heosminthus minutus 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
22 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Heosminthus minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heosminthus minutus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heosminthus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Heosminthus chimidae14 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus11 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis10 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus10 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus9 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius8 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis8 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis8 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae8 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus7 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi7 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens7 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus7 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus6 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis6 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis6 sites
- Tsaganomyidae indet.6 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis5 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi5 sites
- Eomys orientalis5 sites
- Gobisorex kingae5 sites
- Ninamys arboraptus5 sites
- Ninamys kazimierzi5 sites
- Ordolagus teilhardi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Heosminthus minutus, 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- New zapodids (Rodentia) from Oligocene-Miocene deposits in Mongolia. Part 110
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)6
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia5
- A rodent assemblage from the Eo/Oligocene boundary interval near Süngülü, Lesser Caucasus, Turkey1
Each of the 22 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 Heosminthus minutus 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 Heosminthus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heosminthus minutus 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 itHeosminthus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Daxner-Höck 2001)