Plesiosminthus asiaticus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiosminthusPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Plesiosminthus asiaticus 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plesiosminthus asiaticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesiosminthus asiaticus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Plesiosminthus asiaticus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Amphechinus major2 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus2 sites
- Didymoconida2 sites
- Palaeoscaptor rectus2 sites
- Proansomys dureensis2 sites
- Sinolagomys kansuensis2 sites
- Sinolagomys major2 sites
- Yindirtemys deflexus2 sites
- Amphechinus minutissimus1 site
- Asianeomys dangheensis1 site
- Asianeomys junggarensis1 site
- Desmatolagus chinensis1 site
- Desmatolagus gobiensis1 site
- Didymoconus1 site
- Elasmotheriini1 site
- Gliruloides zhoui1 site
- Heterosminthus firmus1 site
- Heterosminthus lanzhouensis1 site
- Heterosoricinae1 site
- Parasminthus tangingoli1 site
- Proansomys badamae1 site
- Sinolagomys1 site
- Sinolagomys ulungurensis1 site
- Tsaganomys altaicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plesiosminthus asiaticus, 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
3 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)2
- Plesiosminthus (Zapodidae, Mammalia) from China and Mongolia: migrations to Europe2
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 5 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 Plesiosminthus asiaticus 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 Plesiosminthus asiaticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiosminthus asiaticus 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.
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What may have been alongside itPlesiosminthus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daxner-Höck and Wu 2003