Beatragus whitei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeatragusPBDB
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Beatragus whitei 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
- Matabaietu Formation · Awash Group3
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The named rock units Beatragus whitei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Beatragus whitei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Beatragus whitei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Alcelaphus kattwinkeli2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Hexaprotodon2 sites
- Kobus kob2 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes2 sites
- Oryx2 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki2 sites
- Tragelaphus nakuae2 sites
- Alcelaphini1 site
- Antidorcas1 site
- Australopithecus garhi1 site
- Awashia suwai1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Ceratotherium simum1 site
- Cercopithecidae1 site
- Connochaetes gentryi1 site
- Damaliscus ademassui1 site
- Deinotherium bozasi1 site
- Dinofelis1 site
- Dinopithecus ingens1 site
- Eurygnathohippus afarense1 site
- Genetta1 site
- Gerontochoerus scotti1 site
- Giraffa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Beatragus whitei, 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
2 references- New antelope fossils from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Hippotragini (Bovidae, Mammalia)3
- Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Beatragus whitei 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 Beatragus whitei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beatragus whitei 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 itBeatragus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vrba 1997