Capra

Capra is a genus of mammals, the goats, comprising ten species, including the markhor and several species known as ibexes. The domestic goat is a domesticated species derived from the bezoar ibex, a subspecies of the wild goat. It is one of the oldest domesticated species of animal—according to archaeological evidence its earliest domestication occurred in Iran at 10,000 calibrated calendar years ago.

Capra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
goatPBDB
Sits inside
CapriniPBDB
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 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 49 of 77 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 25 of 77 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Capra on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

77 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

5 formations

Nubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EBenot Ya'aqov — 33.13°N, 35.62°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WPiram Conglomerate — 21.60°N, 72.36°E

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The named rock units Capra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Capra and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Capra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

908 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Capra, 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

56 references

Each of the 77 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. 44 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 content3

Picture of Capra

Credit
Andrija12345678
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Capra hircus Linnaeus

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Capra hircus · NMBE:mamm:1124117

The description on this site

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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 itCaprini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758