Amphiorycteropus

Amphiorycteropus is an extinct genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata. The genus is known from fossils dating from Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, found in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Amphiorycteropus

ДиБгд · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
OrycteropodidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Orycteropodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Orycteropodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 3.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 5.09 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocene8.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.3–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.22 Mya4.59 Mya

1 occurrence of Amphiorycteropus 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

1 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

1 formation

Beyağaç — 37.27°N, 28.97°E

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The named rock units Amphiorycteropus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amphiorycteropus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Amphiorycteropus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amphiorycteropus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Amphiorycteropus

Credit
ДиБгд
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amphiorycteropus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itOrycteropodidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lehmann 2009