Bunohyrax
Bunohyrax is an extinct genus of hyrax.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaghatheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
8 occurrences of Bunohyrax 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Bunohyrax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bunohyrax and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bunohyrax and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Anthropoidea2 sites
- Arsinoitherium2 sites
- Eremopezus eocaenus2 sites
- Hyainailourinae2 sites
- Insectivora2 sites
- Megalohyrax eocaenus2 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Aframonius dieides1 site
- Akhnatenavus nefertiticyon1 site
- Anchomomys milleri1 site
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Anomaluridae1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Antilohyrax pectidens1 site
- Aprionodon lerichei1 site
- Apterodon1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Arsinoea kallimos1 site
- Arsinoitherium giganteum1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Biretia piveteaui1 site
- Birkamys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bunohyrax, 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
6 references- Premiere découverte d'une faune mammalienne terrestre paleogene d'Afrique sub-saharienne2
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt2
- Nouveaux sites à vertébrés paléogènes dans la région des Gour Lazib (Sahara nord-occidental, Algérie)1
- Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia1
- A new species of Bunohyrax (Hyracoidea, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Bir El Ater (Algeria)1
- Ecological diversity and community ecology in the Fayum sequence (Egypt)1
Each of the 8 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 Bunohyrax
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bunohyrax 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bunohyrax”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSaghatheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlosser 1910