Afrohyrax championi
Chiswick Chap , earlier version Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfrohyraxPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Afrohyrax championi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Afrohyrax championi 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.
Afrohyrax championi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Afrohyrax championi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Dorcatherium pigotti6 sites
- Dicerorhinus5 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi5 sites
- Aceratherium4 sites
- Canthumeryx sirtensis4 sites
- Diamantohyus africanus4 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi4 sites
- Megapedetes4 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Gulella sp.3 sites
- Kichechia zamanae3 sites
- Limicolaria3 sites
- Limnopithecus legetet3 sites
- Paraphiomys pigotti3 sites
- Rhinocerotidae3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Achatina2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Anasinopa leakeyi2 sites
- Brochuchus2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Climacoceras africanus2 sites
- Cricetidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Afrohyrax championi, 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
8 references- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]2
- Miocene mammals, stratigraphy and environment of Muruarot Hill, Kenya2
- Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene1
- New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya1
- The Lower Miocene Fauna of Al-Sarrar (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia)1
- New early Miocene vertebrate locality near Lake Rudolf, Kenya1
- Fossil Mammal Locality on Mount Elgon, Eastern Uganda1
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 content1
Picture of Afrohyrax championi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Chiswick Chap , earlier version Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Afrohyrax championi 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.
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What may have been alongside itAfrohyrax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1933)