Heterosminthus mongoliensis
No picture of Heterosminthus mongoliensis 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 Heterosminthus mongoliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterosminthusPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heterosminthus mongoliensis 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Heterosminthus mongoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterosminthus mongoliensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heterosminthus mongoliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Alloptox gobiensis2 sites
- Aksharomys mallos1 site
- Ansomys1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Cricetodon1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Eotragus1 site
- Eumyarion1 site
- Galericini1 site
- Karydomys debruijni1 site
- Keramidomys1 site
- Kherem hsandgoliensis1 site
- Lacerta1 site
- Litodonomys1 site
- Megacricetodon beijiangensis1 site
- Moschidae1 site
- Mustelidae1 site
- Plesiosciurus sinensis1 site
- Postexallerix securis1 site
- Protalactaga1 site
- Pseudaelurus1 site
- Sinolagomys1 site
- Soricidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heterosminthus mongoliensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- New zapodids (Rodentia) from Oligocene-Miocene deposits in Mongolia. Part 12
- Early Miocene cricetids (Rodentia) from the Junggar basin (Xinjiang, China) and their biochronological implications1
Each of the 3 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 Heterosminthus mongoliensis 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 Heterosminthus mongoliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterosminthus mongoliensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHeterosminthus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000