Caprini

The subfamily Caprinae, also sometimes referred to as the tribe Caprini, is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids. A member of this subfamily is called a caprine.

Caprini

Joe n bloe ( talk ) Joseph N Hall · 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
AntilopinaePBDB
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 3 of 434 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 434 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 266 of 434 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 154 of 434 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 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 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 21 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 47 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 294 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

434 occurrences of Caprini 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

434 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

22 formations

Nachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 4.16°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.92°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EFloral — 52.10°N, 106.70°WFloral — 50.80°N, 103.90°WNubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EZanda — 31.57°N, 79.87°EZanda — 31.48°N, 79.80°EPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WOcotillo — 32.90°N, 117.10°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EBaza — 37.72°N, 2.47°WKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EBenot Ya'aqov — 33.13°N, 35.62°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WCanepatch — 33.68°N, 78.88°WWaccamaw — 33.61°N, 78.97°WWando — 33.11°N, 79.95°WGerakarou — 40.54°N, 23.45°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.60°N, 72.36°E

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The named rock units Caprini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 400 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caprini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Caprini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 365 sites for Caprini, and this reads 240 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

206 references

Each of the 434 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. 194 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 Caprini

Credit
Joe n bloe ( talk ) Joseph N Hall
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Caprini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. (Gray 1821)