Zaraalestes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TupaiodontinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
24 occurrences of Zaraalestes 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
24 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Zaraalestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zaraalestes and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Zaraalestes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Heosminthus chimidae16 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens16 sites
- Desmatolagus gobiensis14 sites
- Tsaganomys altaicus13 sites
- Cricetops dormitor11 sites
- Eucricetodon asiaticus11 sites
- Eucricetodon caducus10 sites
- Gobisorex kingae10 sites
- Shamosminthus sodovis10 sites
- Desmatolagus9 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis9 sites
- Cyclomylus intermedius8 sites
- Cyclomylus lohensis8 sites
- Heosminthus8 sites
- Ulaancricetodon badamae8 sites
- Heosminthus minutus7 sites
- Onjosminthus baindi7 sites
- Tsaganomyidae indet.7 sites
- Desmatolagus simplex6 sites
- Eocricetodon meridionalis6 sites
- Erinaceidae6 sites
- Heosminthus borrae6 sites
- Ninamys arboraptus6 sites
- Ninamys kazimierzi6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Zaraalestes, 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
5 references- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)19
- On some Oligocene insectivore remains from Mongolia.2
- New Eocene ctenodactyloid rodents from the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia and a phylogenetic analysis of ctenodactyloids based on dental features1
- Zaraalestes russelli, a new tupaiodontine erinaceid (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) from the Middle Eocene of Mongolia1
- New insectivores and ruminants from the Tertiary of Mongolia, with remarks on the correlation.1
Each of the 24 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 Zaraalestes 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 Zaraalestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zaraalestes 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 itTupaiodontinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Storch and Dashzeveg 1997