Zhelestes

No picture of Zhelestes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zhelestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZhelestidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya85.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Zhelestes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 occurrences

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

Bissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EAitym — 42.12°N, 62.66°E

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The named rock units Zhelestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Zhelestes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Zhelestes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zhelestes, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Zhelestes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zhelestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itZhelestidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nessov 1985