Gobiops

Gobiops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Jurassic of Mongolia, China, and possibly Kyrgyzstan. The genus is represented by a single species, Gobiops desertus. It was named in 1991 from the Late Jurassic Shar Teeg Beds of Mongolia. Additional material was described in 2005 from the Middle Jurassic Toutunhe Formation in the Junggar Basin of China. Gobiops belongs to the family Brachyopidae. The poorly known genus Ferganobatrachus, named in 1990 from Shar Teeg, is probably synonymous with Gobiops.

No picture of Gobiops 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 Gobiops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachyopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.3 Mya137.05 Mya170 Mya99 Mya

4 occurrences of Gobiops on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

4 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

4 formations

Toutunhe — 43.55°N, 87.26°EMoskovoretskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°ELianmuqin — 43.55°N, 87.26°EShar Teg — 44.12°N, 95.82°E

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The named rock units Gobiops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gobiops and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Gobiops and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gobiops, 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

Each of the 4 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 Gobiops 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 Gobiops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gobiops 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBrachyopidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shishkin 1991