Gazella atlantica
Gazella atlantica, the Atlantic gazelle, is an extinct species of gazelle that lived in Northwest Africa during the Late Pleistocene.
No picture of Gazella atlantica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Gazella atlantica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GazellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Gazella atlantica 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Gazella atlantica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gazella atlantica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Equus8 sites
- Paraethomys6 sites
- Connochaetes taurinus5 sites
- Hystrix cristata5 sites
- Meriones5 sites
- Mus5 sites
- Panthera leo5 sites
- Ceratotherium simum4 sites
- Crocuta crocuta4 sites
- Gerbillus4 sites
- Hyaena hyaena4 sites
- Phacochoerus africanus4 sites
- Theropithecus oswaldi4 sites
- Vulpes vulpes4 sites
- Bos primigenius3 sites
- Canis aureus3 sites
- Crocidura3 sites
- Damaliscus3 sites
- Hippopotamus sirensis3 sites
- Homo erectus3 sites
- Lepus3 sites
- Loxodonta atlantica3 sites
- Lupulella mohibi3 sites
- Lycaon magnus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Gazella atlantica, 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- Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco4
- The Mousterian site of Jebel Irhoud, Morocco: new data on the fauna and biochronology, and description of a new human fossil1
- Le site paleontologique et archeologique de DoukkalaII:premier jalon en Afrique du Nord dun comportement humain assimilable a un charongnage controle et actif1
- The Palaeolithic of Tangier, Morocco1
- Decouverte en Afrique du Nord de restes humains du Paleolithique inferieur1
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 content0
No picture of Gazella atlantica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Gazella atlantica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gazella atlantica 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGazella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bourguignat 1870