Fajumia
No picture of Fajumia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Fajumia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BagridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Fajumia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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 Fajumia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fajumia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fajumia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Myliobatis3 sites
- Pristis3 sites
- Aetobatus2 sites
- Andrewsiphius sloani2 sites
- Arius2 sites
- Barytherium2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Lates2 sites
- Sirenia2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Arsinoitherium1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Bauhinia kachchhensis1 site
- Carcharias taurus1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cinnamomum eokachchhensis1 site
- Creodonta1 site
- Dyrosaurus1 site
- Eugenia1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Ficus kachchhensis1 site
- Ficus khariensis1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Galeocerdo cuvier1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Fajumia, 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
3 references- Palaeogene vertebrate fauna and regressive sediments of Dur at Talhah, southern Sirt Basin, Libya2
- Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India2
- Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fajumia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Fajumia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fajumia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBagridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stromer 1904