Sminthoides
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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 50 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
10 occurrences of Sminthoides on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene69%
- Pleistocene31%
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.
Sminthoides and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Sminthoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Mimomys9 sites
- Prosiphneus9 sites
- Cricetidae8 sites
- Muridae8 sites
- Ochotona8 sites
- Orientalomys8 sites
- Nannocricetus7 sites
- Germanomys6 sites
- Hypolagus6 sites
- Apodemus4 sites
- Sorex4 sites
- Talpidae4 sites
- Eucastor3 sites
- Paralactaga3 sites
- Pliopentalagus3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Beremendia2 sites
- Castor anderssoni2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Myomimus sinensis2 sites
- Paenelimnoecus2 sites
- Quyania chowi2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Sicista2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sminthoides, 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
3 references- A preliminary report on the Late Pliocene Micromammalian fauna from Yangyuan and Yuxian, Hebei7
- Neogene micromammals of China2
- The early Pliocene Micromammalian Fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha)1
Each of the 10 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 Sminthoides 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 Sminthoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sminthoides 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlosser 1924