Asioryctes nemegtensis

Robert Niedźwiedzki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsioryctesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Asioryctes
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Asioryctes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Asioryctes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Asioryctes nemegtensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Asioryctes nemegtensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asioryctes nemegtensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Asioryctes nemegtensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Gobiderma pulchra4 sites
- Adamisaurus magnidentatus3 sites
- Chulsanbaatar vulgaris3 sites
- Nemegtbaatar gobiensis3 sites
- Protoceratopsidae3 sites
- Slavoia darevskii3 sites
- Ankylosauridae2 sites
- Barunlestes butleri2 sites
- Catopsbaatar catopsaloides2 sites
- Deltatheridium pretrituberculare tardum2 sites
- Gilmoreteius chulsanensis2 sites
- Globaura venusta2 sites
- Gobipteryx minuta2 sites
- Gobiulus sabulosus2 sites
- Priscagama gobiensis2 sites
- Shinisauroides latipalatum2 sites
- Allotheria1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bagaceratops1 site
- Basilemys1 site
- Breviceratops kozlowskii1 site
- Bulganbaatar nemegtbaataroides1 site
- Carnosauria1 site
- Carusia intermedia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Asioryctes nemegtensis, 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- Preliminary description of two new eutherian genera from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia3
- First occurrence of the eutherian mammal Asioryctes nemegtensis from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and a revised alpha taxonomy based on the skull and dentition2
- Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Asioryctes nemegtensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Robert Niedźwiedzki
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Asioryctes nemegtensis 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 itAsioryctes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan-Jaworowska 1975