Desmatolagus vetustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmatolagusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
10 occurrences of Desmatolagus vetustus 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
10 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
5 formations
- Hsanda Gol Formation4
- Ulan Gocho Formation2
- Shara Murun Formation1
- Houldjin Formation1
- Keziletuogayi Formation1
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The named rock units Desmatolagus vetustus 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.
Desmatolagus vetustus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Desmatolagus vetustus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Eucricetodon caducus3 sites
- Gobiolagus tolmachovi3 sites
- Karakoromys decessus3 sites
- Allosminthus khandae2 sites
- Anatolechinos neimongolensis2 sites
- Ardynomys2 sites
- Cricetops dormitor2 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis2 sites
- Eosimias2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus2 sites
- Gobiolagus major2 sites
- Gobiomys exiguus2 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae2 sites
- Lacerta2 sites
- Microchiroptera2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens2 sites
- Pappocricetodon2 sites
- Prosciurus2 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis2 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae2 sites
- Urtinotherium2 sites
- Advenimus burkei1 site
- Allosminthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Desmatolagus vetustus, 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
5 references- The most prominent Lagomorpha from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia4
- Late Eocene lagomorphs from Nei Mongol, China2
- New fossil Leporidae from Mongolia2
- Lagomorphs from the Yihesubu late Eocene of Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)1
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Desmatolagus vetustus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Desmatolagus vetustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmatolagus vetustus 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 itDesmatolagus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Burke 1941)