Gobiconodontidae

Gobiconodontidae

Pavel Riha = user Pavel.Riha.CB ( e-mail ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
EutriconodontaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 180 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya3.6 Mya197 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Gobiconodontidae 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

31 occurrences

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

14 formations

Ilek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°EIlek — 55.97°N, 88.09°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.91°EYixian — 41.78°N, 120.76°ECloverly — 45.44°N, 108.24°WCloverly — 45.20°N, 108.81°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WOshih — 44.90°N, 102.89°EDzunbain — 42.45°N, 102.42°EEjinhoro — 39.91°N, 108.90°EKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WLillo — 51.21°N, 4.43°EWessex — 50.66°N, 1.13°WLa Boca — 26.60°N, 99.52°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WShahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°EFuxin — 42.02°N, 121.67°E

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The named rock units Gobiconodontidae 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.

Gobiconodontidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Gobiconodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Gobiconodontidae, 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

25 references

Each of the 31 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Gobiconodontidae

Credit
Pavel Riha = user Pavel.Riha.CB ( e-mail )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gobiconodontidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEutriconodonta through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jenkins and Schaff 1988