Gobiomeryx
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GelocidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Gobiomeryx on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gobiomeryx 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.
Gobiomeryx and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Gobiomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Heosminthus chimidae5 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus4 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi4 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius3 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis3 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis3 sites
- Eomys orientalis3 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus3 sites
- Heosminthus3 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis3 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus3 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae3 sites
- Yindirtemys shevyrevae3 sites
- Allosminthus khandae2 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus2 sites
- Cricetops dormitor2 sites
- Desmatolagus orlovi2 sites
- Desmatolagus vetustus2 sites
- Desmatolagus youngi2 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis2 sites
- Gobisorex kingae2 sites
- Heosminthus minutus2 sites
- Huangomys frequens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gobiomeryx, 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
4 references- Oligocene - Early Miocene Ruminants from the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia)4
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)3
- New early ruminants (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol (China), with remarks on their phylogenetic relationship1
- A restudy of the Eocene ruminants from Baise and Yongle basins, Guangxi, China1
Each of the 9 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 Gobiomeryx 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 Gobiomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gobiomeryx 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 itGelocidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trofimov 1957