Elaschitotherium
No picture of Elaschitotherium 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 Elaschitotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LantianiinaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, omnivorePBDB, for Dichobunidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dichobunidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dichobunidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elaschitotherium 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
3 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.
Elaschitotherium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Elaschitotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Jiangsudon shanghuangensis2 sites
- Adapidae1 site
- Adapoides troglodytes1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Archaeomeryx1 site
- Brachyhyops1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Creodonta1 site
- Ctenodactyloidea1 site
- Diacodexeidae1 site
- Dichobunoidea1 site
- Dolosimus dolus1 site
- Eosimias sinensis1 site
- Helohyus1 site
- Homacodontidae1 site
- Indohyus major1 site
- Insectivora1 site
- Leporidae1 site
- Limeryx chimaera1 site
- Lushilagus lohoensis1 site
- Macrotarsius macrorhysis1 site
- Metatheria1 site
- Miacis lushiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elaschitotherium, 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
2 references- Middle-Eocene artiodactyls from Shanghuang (Jiangsu Province, Coastal China) and the diversity of basal dichobunoids in Asia2
- A new small dichobunid artiodactyl from Shanghuang (MIddle Eocene, eastern China): Implications for the early evolution of proto-selenodonts in Asia1
Each of the 3 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 Elaschitotherium 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 Elaschitotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elaschitotherium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLantianiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Metais et al. 2004