Diamantohyus africanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SanitheriumPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Diamantohyus africanus 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diamantohyus africanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diamantohyus africanus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diamantohyus africanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Afrohyrax championi4 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti4 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus3 sites
- Canthumeryx sirtensis3 sites
- Dicerorhinus3 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Afropithecus turkanensis2 sites
- Brochuchus2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Gulella sp.2 sites
- Hominoidea2 sites
- Kenyasus rusingensis2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
- Lopholistriodon moruoroti2 sites
- Masritherium aequatorialis2 sites
- Megapedetes2 sites
- Melanoides tuberculata2 sites
- Pelomedusidae2 sites
- Rodentia2 sites
- Sivameryx2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diamantohyus africanus, 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
5 references- Miosengi butleri, gen. et sp. nov., (Macroscelidea) from the Kalodirr Member, Lothidok Formation, early Miocene of Kenya1
- Fauna from a new Lower Miocene locality west of Lake Turkana, Kenya1
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]1
- New higher primates from the early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya1
- Fossil Mammal Locality on Mount Elgon, Eastern Uganda1
Each of the 5 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 Diamantohyus africanus 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 Diamantohyus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diamantohyus africanus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itSanitherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stromer 1926)