Gobisorex kingae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GobisorexPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Gobisorex kingae 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
17 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Gobisorex kingae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gobisorex kingae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Gobisorex kingae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Tsaganomys altaicus12 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis11 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae11 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens10 sites
- Zaraalestes minutus10 sites
- Desmatolagus9 sites
- Cricetops dormitor7 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius7 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis7 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus7 sites
- Heosminthus7 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi7 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis7 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex6 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus6 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis6 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus5 sites
- Coelodontomys asiaticus5 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis5 sites
- Desmatolagus chinensis5 sites
- Heosminthus minutus5 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon5 sites
- Tsaganomyidae indet.5 sites
- Amphicynodon4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Gobisorex kingae, 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- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)13
- Notes on Early Oligocene ursids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China1
- Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakstan1
- The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area1
- On some Oligocene insectivore remains from Mongolia.1
Each of the 17 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
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No picture of Gobisorex kingae 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 Gobisorex kingae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gobisorex kingae 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 itGobisorex through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sulimski 1970