Shamosminthus tongi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShamosminthusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Shamosminthus tongi 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
7 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 Shamosminthus tongi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shamosminthus tongi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Shamosminthus tongi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Bohlinosminthus parvulus6 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli6 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus5 sites
- Eucricetodon bagus5 sites
- Eucricetodon jilantaiensis5 sites
- Huangomys frequens5 sites
- Parasminthus asiaecentralis5 sites
- Tataromys minor5 sites
- Gobiosminthus4 sites
- Heosminthus4 sites
- Tataromys plicidens4 sites
- Tataromys sigmodon4 sites
- Alashania tengkoliensis3 sites
- Gobiosminthus qiui3 sites
- Witenia yolua3 sites
- Yindirtemys shevyrevae3 sites
- Yindirtemys ulantatalensis3 sites
- Anomoemys lohiculus2 sites
- Ctenodactylinae2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Eucricetodon2 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus2 sites
- Gobisorex kingae2 sites
- Helanshania deserta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Shamosminthus tongi, 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
4 references- Zapodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Middle Oligocene of Ulantatal, Nei Mongol3
- Rodent paleocommunities from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)2
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)1
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia1
Each of the 7 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 Shamosminthus tongi 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 Shamosminthus tongi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shamosminthus tongi 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 itShamosminthus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huang 1992