Parasminthus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipodidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
55 occurrences of Parasminthus 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
55 occurrences- Oligocene96%
- Miocene2%
- Pleistocene2%
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
10 formations
- Xianshuihe Formation14
- Ulantatal Formation14
- Hsanda Gol Formation9
- Loh Formation5
- Paoniuquan Formation3
- Keziletuogayi Formation2
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The named rock units Parasminthus 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.
Parasminthus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Parasminthus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
292 taxa- Bohlinosminthus parvulus23 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus13 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis11 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon11 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus10 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis10 sites
- Eucricetodon9 sites
- Tataromys minor9 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis7 sites
- Huangomys frequens7 sites
- Tataromys plicidens7 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus7 sites
- Aralocricetodon schokensis6 sites
- Gobiosminthus6 sites
- Heosminthus6 sites
- Heterosminthus lanzhouensis6 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens6 sites
- Shamosminthus tongi6 sites
- Sinolagomys major6 sites
- Yindirtemys deflexus6 sites
- Yindirtemys grangeri6 sites
- Yindirtemys ulantatalensis6 sites
- Amphechinus5 sites
- Amphechinus minimus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Parasminthus, 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
13 references- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Lower Member of Xianshuihe Formation in Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China14
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia12
- Zapodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Middle Oligocene of Ulantatal, Nei Mongol10
- Rodent paleocommunities from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)4
- Discovery of two mid-Tertiary mammalian faunas from Haiyuan, Ningxia, China3
- Propalaeocastor (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of Burqin Basin, Xinjiang2
- Plesiosminthus (Zapodidae, Mammalia) from China and Mongolia: migrations to Europe2
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the mid-Tertiary deposits in Danghe Area, Gansu, China2
- New Early Miocene Zapodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Aral Formation of the Altynshokysu Locality (North Aral Region)2
- Nanpoping fauna of the Lanzhou Basin and its environmental significance1
- Insect bone-modification and paleoecology of Oligocene mammal-bearing sites in the Doupov Mountains, northwestern Bohemia1
- Discovery of early Oligocene mammalian fossils from Danghe area, Gansu, China1
Each of the 55 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Parasminthus 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 Parasminthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasminthus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDipodidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bohlin 1946