Dasyatis africana

No picture of Dasyatis africana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dasyatis africana itself, so it was not used. 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 Dasyatis africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasyatisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.0–912 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

20 occurrences of Dasyatis africana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

20 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

2 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.08°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.15°N, 36.40°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.27°N, 35.82°E

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The named rock units Dasyatis africana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dasyatis africana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dasyatis africana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Dasyatis africana, 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

7 references

Each of the 20 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 Dasyatis africana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dasyatis africana itself, so it was not used.

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 Dasyatis africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dasyatis africana 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 itDasyatis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dartevelle and Casier 1959