Damaliscus dorcas
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- bontebokPBDB
- Sits inside
- DamaliscusPBDB
- 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 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Damaliscus dorcas 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
22 occurrences- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene77%
- Holocene18%
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
4 formations
- Sterkfontein Formation · Transvaal Group2
- Mbuga/Yellow Clays Formation1
- Mbuga Clays Formation1
- Swartkrans Formation · Transvaal Group1
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The named rock units Damaliscus dorcas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Damaliscus dorcas and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Damaliscus dorcas and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Taurotragus oryx15 sites
- Bovidae14 sites
- Hystrix africaeaustralis14 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli12 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus12 sites
- Procavia capensis12 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas11 sites
- Connochaetes gnou10 sites
- Equus capensis10 sites
- Leporidae10 sites
- Raphicerus campestris10 sites
- Alcelaphus buselaphus9 sites
- Felis lybica9 sites
- Mellivora capensis9 sites
- Panthera pardus9 sites
- Papio ursinus9 sites
- Pelea capreolus9 sites
- Suidae9 sites
- Antidorcas marsupialis8 sites
- Equus quagga8 sites
- Mammalia8 sites
- Oreotragus oreotragus8 sites
- Redunca arundinum8 sites
- Redunca fulvorufula8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Damaliscus dorcas, 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
17 references- Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa4
- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania2
- Re-appraisal of lithostratigraphy of Sterkfontein hominid site2
- A revised listing of fossil mammals from the Haasgat cave system ex situ deposits (HGD), South1
- Middle and later Stone Age large mammal and tortoise remains from Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa1
- Mid-Pleistocene change in large mammal faunas of East Africa1
- A middle stone age worked bone industry from Katanda,Upper Semliki Valley,Zaire1
- Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa1
- Glimpses from Gondolin: A faunal analysis of a fossil site near Broederstroom, Transvaal, South Africa1
- Dating, Archaeology and Human Fossils from the Middle Stone Age Levels of Die Kelders, South Africa1
- Environmental, Ecological and Paleoanthropological Implications of the Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Equus Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa1
- Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Hominids of Lainyamok, Kenya1
Each of the 22 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. 5 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
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi · FMNH:Mammals:73662
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What may have been alongside itDamaliscus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)