Boselaphini

Boselaphini is a tribe of bovines. It contains only two extant genera, each with a single extant species.

Boselaphini

Rowland Ward · Public Domain · 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
BovinaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 156 occurrencesMiocene — about 124 of 156 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 156 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 156 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 11 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

156 occurrences of Boselaphini on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

156 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

51 formations

Ngorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.25°EChinji — 30.92°N, 71.98°EChinji — 32.79°N, 72.93°ESnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EPikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EManchar — 26.43°N, 67.87°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EDytiko — 40.88°N, 22.55°EPinjor — 31.00°N, 76.70°EPinjor — 30.85°N, 76.75°EBabladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°ENagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EDhok Pathan — 33.63°N, 72.52°EAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WMuddy Creek — 35.70°N, 115.20°W

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The named rock units Boselaphini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Boselaphini and its relatives

Miocene

Where Boselaphini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Boselaphini, 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

99 references

Each of the 156 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. 87 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 content1

Picture of Boselaphini

Credit
Rowland Ward
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997