Equus quagga burchelli

Equus quagga burchelli

altagray · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Burchell's zebraPBDB
Sits inside
Equus quaggaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Equus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Equus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

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 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 51 of 70 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 19 of 70 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences774 ka11.7 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Equus quagga burchelli 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

70 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

8 formations

Mbuga Clays — 4.03°S, 33.78°EMbuga Clays — 3.98°S, 33.93°EMbuga Clays — 3.90°S, 33.73°EMbuga Clays — 3.92°S, 33.87°EMbuga Clays — 3.88°S, 33.97°EMbuga/Yellow Clays — 3.92°S, 33.82°EMbuga/Yellow Clays — 3.87°S, 33.72°EMbuga/Yellow Clays — 3.92°S, 33.87°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°ERietputs — 28.53°S, 24.47°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°E

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The named rock units Equus quagga burchelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Equus quagga burchelli and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Equus quagga burchelli and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Equus quagga burchelli, 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

30 references

Each of the 70 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. 18 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

Picture of Equus quagga burchelli

Source
GBIF
Credit
altagray
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Equus quagga burchelli 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 itEquus quagga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1824)