Hippotragus cookei
No picture of Hippotragus cookei 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 Hippotragus cookei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippotragusPBDB
- 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 2.8 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.
2 occurrences of Hippotragus cookei 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
2 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 Hippotragus cookei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hippotragus cookei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Hippotragus cookei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Calliphoridae1 site
- Dermestidae1 site
- Dinofelis barlowi1 site
- Gypsorynchus makapani1 site
- Hippotragini1 site
- Homotherium1 site
- Hyaena makapani1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Hystrix africaeaustralis1 site
- Kinixys1 site
- Metaschizotherium1 site
- Orycteropus afer1 site
- Pachycrocuta brevirostris1 site
- Panthera pardus1 site
- Parmularius braini1 site
- Pelusios1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Scolopendra1 site
- Simatherium1 site
- Testudo1 site
- Trogidae1 site
- Wellsiana torticornuta1 site
- Xenohystrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hippotragus cookei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Proximal femur of Australopithecus africanus from Member 4, Makapansgat, South Africa1
- Notes on some chalicothere remains from Makapansgat1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Hippotragus cookei 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 Hippotragus cookei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hippotragus cookei 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 itHippotragus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vrba 1987