Geniohyus
Geniohyus was a genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal.
No picture of Geniohyus 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 Geniohyus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeniohyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Geniohyus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Geniohyus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Geniohyus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Geniohyus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Megalohyrax eocaenus3 sites
- Nabotherium aegyptiacum3 sites
- Apterodon macrognathus2 sites
- Arsinoitherium zitteli2 sites
- Eremopezus eocaenus2 sites
- Hyainailourinae2 sites
- Metapterodon schlosseri2 sites
- Metasinopa2 sites
- Pterodon africanus2 sites
- Shetwemys fajumensis2 sites
- Aframonius dieides1 site
- Akhnatenavus nefertiticyon1 site
- Anchomomys milleri1 site
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Antilohyrax pectidens1 site
- Apidium bowni1 site
- Apterodon1 site
- Arsinoea kallimos1 site
- Arsinoitherium1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Birkamys1 site
- Birkamys korai1 site
- Bothriogenys fraasi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Geniohyus, 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- New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys1
- Ecological diversity and community ecology in the Fayum sequence (Egypt)1
- New Oligocene hyracoids from Egypt1
- Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Hyracoidea of the Fayum, Egypt, with description of several new species1
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt1
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
Media content0
No picture of Geniohyus 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 Geniohyus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geniohyus 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Geniohyus”
- 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 itGeniohyinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Andrews 1904