Baissoferus mongolicus
No picture of Baissoferus mongolicus 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 Baissoferus mongolicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaissoferusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Baissoferus mongolicus on record, most of them in the Early 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
1 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
- Shar-Tolgoy Formation · Bon-Tsagaan Group1
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The named rock units Baissoferus mongolicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baissoferus mongolicus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Baissoferus mongolicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Antemnacrassa albomaculata1 site
- Archescarabaeus mesozoicus1 site
- Archostemata1 site
- Baissoferidae1 site
- Brachilatus dundulaensis1 site
- Cretocoma tologoica1 site
- Cretofalselaterium baiankhongoricum1 site
- Cretomorgus ikhbogdensis1 site
- Cretopoena gratshevi1 site
- Eulichadidae1 site
- Holcorobeus atrosulcatus1 site
- Khanitermes acutipennis1 site
- Metabuprestium dundulense1 site
- Metabuprestium ichbogdoense1 site
- Metabuprestium shartologoiense1 site
- Mongolocar orcinus1 site
- Notocupes elegans1 site
- Nuurcala coloris1 site
- Omma longicolle1 site
- Palaeocar princeps1 site
- Paratrox medvedevi1 site
- Prospeolepta brevicubita1 site
- Storozhenkella phoenix1 site
- Vitisma okata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Baissoferus mongolicus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Baissoferus mongolicus 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 Baissoferus mongolicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baissoferus mongolicus 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 itBaissoferus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sukatsheva and Sinitshenkova 2025