Aepyceros

Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. It is the only living member of the tribe Aepycerotini.

Aepyceros

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
impalaPBDB
Sits inside
AepycerotiniPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 152 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 152 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 152 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 102 of 152 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 45 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 26 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

152 occurrences of Aepyceros on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

152 occurrences

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

21 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.22°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EShungura — 5.07°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EHadar — 11.11°N, 40.58°ENkondo/Warwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.43°EWembere-Manonga — 3.87°S, 33.72°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°EMursi — 5.44°N, 35.96°EVogel River Series — 3.21°S, 35.19°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Aepyceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aepyceros and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aepyceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

672 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Aepyceros, 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

58 references

Each of the 152 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. 46 further references are 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

Media content2

Picture of Aepyceros

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAepycerotini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundevall 1847