Capricornis sumatraensis
The mainland serow is a species of serow native to the Himalayas, Southeast Asia and China.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CapricornisPBDB
- 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 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Capricornis sumatraensis 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
11 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Capricornis sumatraensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Capricornis sumatraensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Macaca8 sites
- Sus scrofa8 sites
- Hystrix7 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca6 sites
- Cervus unicolor6 sites
- Panthera tigris6 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis6 sites
- Sus6 sites
- Ursus thibetanus6 sites
- Bovinae5 sites
- Bubalus5 sites
- Cuon5 sites
- Atherurus macrourus4 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak4 sites
- Panthera pardus4 sites
- Rhizomys4 sites
- Stegodon insignis4 sites
- Ursus malayanus4 sites
- Arctonyx collaris3 sites
- Felis3 sites
- Muntiacus3 sites
- Pongo3 sites
- Pongo pygmaeus3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Capricornis sumatraensis, 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
9 references- First discovery of Pleistocene orangutan (Pongo sp.) fossils in Peninsular Malaysia: Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications2
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China2
- The Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Khok Sung (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications1
- A Pleistocene mammal assemblage containing Ailuropoda and Pongo from Tham Prakai Phet cave, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand1
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- A preliminary study of the Bailong Cave Paleoanthropological Site in Yunxi County, Hubei Province1
- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line1
- First discovery of Megalovis guangxiensis and Alligator cf. sinensis in Guangdong1
- A new discovery of fossil giant ape [= Gigantopithecus] teeth in Wuming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region1
Each of the 11 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 Capricornis sumatraensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Melanochromis
- 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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What may have been alongside itCapricornis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758