Heterosminthus

No picture of Heterosminthus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Heterosminthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophocricetinaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Oligocene — about 18 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.4–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya8.725 Mya27.8 Mya4.6 Mya

44 occurrences of Heterosminthus 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

44 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

8 formations

Loh — 45.46°N, 101.20°ELoh — 45.26°N, 101.72°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.01°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.14°ELoh — 45.34°N, 101.83°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.51°EXianshuihe — 35.15°N, 105.11°EXianshuihe — 36.46°N, 104.16°ESuosuoquan — 46.31°N, 88.02°ESuosuoquan — 46.66°N, 88.34°ETiejianggou — 40.50°N, 94.70°ETiejianggou — 39.49°N, 94.73°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 101.62°EKansu — 36.73°N, 103.40°EMaradah — 28.50°N, 20.00°EPaoniuquan — 40.50°N, 94.70°E

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The named rock units Heterosminthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterosminthus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Heterosminthus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Heterosminthus, 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

12 references

Each of the 44 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 Heterosminthus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Heterosminthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLophocricetinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1930