Gomphos

Gomphos is an extinct genus of early lagomorphs from the early Eocene of China and Mongolia.

Gomphos

Brian P. Kraatz1,2*, Jin Meng2, Marcelo Weksler2, Chuankui Li3 · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/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
MimolagidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya48.07 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Gomphos 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

10 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

5 formations

Naran Bulak — 44.62°N, 106.18°ENaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.37°ENaran Bulak — 43.45°N, 101.44°ENomogen — 43.37°N, 110.75°ENomogen — 43.15°N, 111.58°EIrdin Manha — 43.33°N, 111.76°EKholboldchi — 45.18°N, 100.67°EUlan Shireh — 42.52°N, 110.97°E

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The named rock units Gomphos 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.

Gomphos and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gomphos and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Gomphos, 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

10 references

Each of the 10 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 content2

Picture of Gomphos

Credit
Brian P. Kraatz1,2*, Jin Meng2, Marcelo Weksler2, Chuankui Li3
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gomphos sp. · amnh:fm:21126B

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itMimolagidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shevyreva 1975