Dolichopithecus ruscinensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DolichopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Cercopithecidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Cercopithecidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Dolichopithecus ruscinensis 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 Dolichopithecus ruscinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dolichopithecus ruscinensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dolichopithecus ruscinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Anancus arvernensis4 sites
- Bovidae3 sites
- Dicerorhinus3 sites
- Mammut borsoni3 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Cervidae2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis2 sites
- Machairodontinae2 sites
- Mesopithecus monspessulanus2 sites
- Metacervocerus pardinensis2 sites
- Muntiacus2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Parabos2 sites
- Stephanorhinus2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Tapirus arvernensis2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Ursus2 sites
- Abramis sp.1 site
- Acipenser1 site
- Anthracomys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dolichopithecus ruscinensis, 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
6 references- Large Ruscinian Mammalia in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union2
- Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy in southeastern Transylvania (Romania)2
- Early Pliocene Bear Ursus thibetanus (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Priozernoe Locality in the Dniester Basin (Moldova Republic)1
- Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria1
- A Pliocene primate from Macedonia (Greece)1
- Accumulated bones in a Pliocene cave in Cerro Pelado, Spain1
Each of the 8 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
Media content1
Picture of Dolichopithecus ruscinensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dolichopithecus ruscinensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itDolichopithecus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret 1889