Hesperogaulus wilsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperogaulusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hesperogaulus wilsoni 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
3 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 Hesperogaulus wilsoni 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.
Hesperogaulus wilsoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hesperogaulus wilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Camelidae2 sites
- Dinohippus spectans2 sites
- Dipoides stirtoni2 sites
- Microtoscoptes disjunctus2 sites
- Pliotaxidea nevadensis2 sites
- Pliozapus solus2 sites
- Scapanus proceridens2 sites
- Teleoceras2 sites
- Amebelodon1 site
- Aplodontia micra1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Bartramia umatilla1 site
- Basirepomys pliocenicus1 site
- Basirepomys romensis1 site
- Borophagus pugnator1 site
- Borophagus secundus1 site
- Castor1 site
- Castor californicus1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Citellus (Citellus) mckayensis1 site
- Citellus (Otospermophilus) shotwelli1 site
- Cormohipparion1 site
- Crustacea1 site
- Dipodomyinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hesperogaulus wilsoni, 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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hesperogaulus wilsoni 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 Hesperogaulus wilsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperogaulus wilsoni 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 itHesperogaulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1999