Bothriogenys fraasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BothriogenysPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Bothriogenys fraasi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bothriogenys fraasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bothriogenys fraasi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bothriogenys fraasi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Megalohyrax eocaenus3 sites
- Aegyptopithecus zeuxis2 sites
- Apidium phiomense2 sites
- Hyainailourinae2 sites
- Monamys simonsi2 sites
- Pachyhyrax crassidentatus2 sites
- Palaelodus2 sites
- Simonsius grangeri2 sites
- Thyrohyrax domorictus2 sites
- Varanus2 sites
- Xenerodiops mycter2 sites
- Afrotarsius chatrathi1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Chasmoclupea aegyptica1 site
- Cleopatrodon robusta1 site
- Crinifer1 site
- Gaudeamus aegyptius1 site
- Geniohyus1 site
- Goliathia andrewsi1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Gruidae1 site
- Halitheriinae1 site
- Janipes nymphaeobates1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bothriogenys fraasi, 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
3 references- Deciduous dentition and dental eruption sequence of Bothriogenys fraasi (Anthracotheriidae, Artiodactyla) from the Fayum Depression, Egypt3
- New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys1
- Über paarhufer der fluviomarinen schichten des Fajum, odontographisches und osteologisches Material1
Each of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Bothriogenys fraasi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Bothriogenys fraasi · dpc:23943
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBothriogenys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schmidt 1913)