Chalicotherium rusingense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChalicotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Chalicotherium rusingense on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chalicotherium rusingense 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.
Chalicotherium rusingense and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chalicotherium rusingense and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Diamantomys luederitzi2 sites
- Kichechia zamanae2 sites
- Paraphiomys2 sites
- Siamotragulus songhorensis2 sites
- Walangania africanus2 sites
- ? Krapfiella sp.1 site
- Achatina1 site
- Afrocricetodon songhori1 site
- Afrocyon1 site
- Afrohyrax championi1 site
- Bathyergoides1 site
- Burtoa nilotica1 site
- Calumma benovskyi1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cercopithecoidea1 site
- Copris leakeyorum1 site
- Dicerorhinus1 site
- Edentulina sp.1 site
- Elmerimys1 site
- Ginsburgsmilus napakensis1 site
- Gonaxis sp.1 site
- Gulella sp.1 site
- Hecubides euryodon1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chalicotherium rusingense, 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- New hominoid fossils from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya1
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]1
- Fossil mammals of Africa No. 18: East African Miocene and Pleistocene chalicotheres1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Chalicotherium rusingense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chalicotherium rusingense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chalicotherium rusingense 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChalicotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butler 1965