Hesperogaulus gazini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperogaulusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Hesperogaulus gazini on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Hesperogaulus gazini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hesperogaulus gazini and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hesperogaulus gazini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Acritohippus isonesus6 sites
- Aphelops4 sites
- Hypohippus osborni4 sites
- Merycodontinae4 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus4 sites
- Amphicyon frendens3 sites
- Camelidae3 sites
- Dromomeryx borealis3 sites
- Liodontia alexandrae3 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus3 sites
- Protospermophilus malheurensis3 sites
- Archaeohippus ultimus2 sites
- Balantiomys oregonensis2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Desmatippus avus2 sites
- Scalopoides ripafodiator2 sites
- Spermophilus tephrus2 sites
- Tayassuinae2 sites
- Tephrocyon rurestris2 sites
- Achlyoscapter longirostris1 site
- Alluvisorex arcadentes1 site
- Arctomyoides1 site
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hesperogaulus gazini, 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
2 references- Hesperogaulus, a new genus of mylagaulid rodent (Mammalia) from the Miocene (Barstovian to Hemphillian) of the Great Basin5
- The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA1
Each of the 6 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 Hesperogaulus gazini 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 Hesperogaulus gazini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperogaulus gazini 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 itHesperogaulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korth 1999