Litolophus gobiensis
No picture of Litolophus gobiensis 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 Litolophus gobiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LitolophusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Litolophus gobiensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Litolophus gobiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Litolophus gobiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Litolophus gobiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Archetypomys1 site
- Dawsonolagus antiquus1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Erlianomys combinatus1 site
- Gobiatherium mirificum1 site
- Ischyromyidae1 site
- Mesonyx nuhetingensis1 site
- Mongolonyx dolichognathus1 site
- Tamquammys longus1 site
- Tamquammys robustus1 site
- Tamquammys wilsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Litolophus gobiensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Litolophus gobiensis 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 Litolophus gobiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Litolophus gobiensis 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 itLitolophus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Colbert 1934)