Gobiatherium mirificum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GobiatheriumPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dinocerata
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dinocerata
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Gobiatherium mirificum 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
8 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.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Gobiatherium mirificum 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.
Gobiatherium mirificum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gobiatherium mirificum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Lophialetes2 sites
- Mongolonyx dolichognathus2 sites
- Pappaceras confluens2 sites
- Tamquammys wilsoni2 sites
- Teleolophus2 sites
- Archetypomys1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Asiatosuchus grangeri1 site
- Asiocoryphodon conicus1 site
- Asiocoryphodon lophodontus1 site
- Asiomys dawsoni1 site
- Breviodon1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Dawsonolagus antiquus1 site
- Dichobunoidea1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Erlianomys combinatus1 site
- Eudinoceras1 site
- Eudinoceras mongoliensis1 site
- Hapalodectes serus1 site
- Helaletes1 site
- Helaletes medius1 site
- Helaletidae1 site
- Heptodon minimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Gobiatherium mirificum, 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- Mammals of the Eocene locality Toru Ajgyr (Kyrgyzstan)2
- Gobiatherium (Mammalia: Dinocerata) from the middle Eocene of Asia: Taxonomy and biochronological significance2
- The middle Eocene Arshanto fauna (Mammalia) of Inner Mongolia2
- New materials of Eocene Dinocerata (Mammalia) from the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)1
- Coryphodonts and uintatheres from the Mongolian expedition of 19301
Each of the 8 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 Gobiatherium mirificum 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 Gobiatherium mirificum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gobiatherium mirificum 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 itGobiatherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn and Granger 1932