Helanshania deserta
No picture of Helanshania deserta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Helanshania deserta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelanshaniaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ctenodactylidae
- 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.
2 occurrences of Helanshania deserta 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helanshania deserta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helanshania deserta and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Helanshania deserta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Alashania tengkoliensis2 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus2 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 sites
- Ctenodactylinae2 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus2 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus2 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis2 sites
- Gobiosminthus2 sites
- Gobiosminthus qiui2 sites
- Huangomys frequens2 sites
- Parasminthus asiaecentralis2 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli2 sites
- Shamosminthus tongi2 sites
- Tataromys minor2 sites
- Tataromys plicidens2 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon2 sites
- Yindirtemys shevyrevae2 sites
- Yindirtemys ulantatalensis2 sites
- Argyromys cicigei1 site
- Cricetops dormitor1 site
- Eucricetodon1 site
- Eucricetodon caducus1 site
- Heosminthus1 site
- Karakoromys decessus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Helanshania deserta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Helanshania deserta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Helanshania deserta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helanshania deserta 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 itHelanshania through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vianey-Liaud et al. 2010