Damalacra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippotraginiPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Damalacra on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
31 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
8 formations
- Wembere-Manonga Formation11
- Varswater Formation10
- Nachukui Formation3
- Kanapoi Formation2
- Nawata Formation2
- Nawata and Nachukui Formation · Lothagam Group1
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The named rock units Damalacra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Damalacra and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Damalacra and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
320 taxa- Archaeopotamus harvardi13 sites
- Eurygnathohippus8 sites
- Kobus subdolus8 sites
- Alcelaphini7 sites
- Bovini7 sites
- Ceratotherium7 sites
- Gazella7 sites
- Struthio7 sites
- Anancus kenyensis6 sites
- Aves6 sites
- Colobinae6 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi6 sites
- Elephantidae6 sites
- Giraffa6 sites
- Hydrocynus6 sites
- Nyanzachoerus kanamensis6 sites
- Protopterus6 sites
- Reduncini6 sites
- Aepyceros premelampus5 sites
- Dinofelis5 sites
- Eurygnathohippus turkanense5 sites
- Hippotragini5 sites
- Kobus presigmoidalis5 sites
- Loxodonta exoptata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Damalacra, 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
10 references- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania9
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa7
- A new genus of late Tertiary penguin from Langebaanweg, South Africa4
- Un nouveau rongeur Mystromys pocockei sp. nov. (Cricetinae) de Pliocene inferieur de Langebaanweg (Region du Cap, Afrique du Sud)3
- Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania2
- A new fossil stork from the later Tertiary of Langebaanweg,South Africa2
- Ruminants (Giraffidae and Bovidae) from Kanapoi1
- The oldest Acomys from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa and the problem of its murid affinities1
- Paleoecology of the late Tertiary fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa and a reinterpretation of their geological context1
- Geology and Fauna of a New Pliocene Locality in North- western Kenya1
Each of the 31 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 Damalacra was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Damalacra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHippotragini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gentry 1980