Hyracoidea

Hyracoidea is a taxonomic order of mammals. It includes the living hyraxes, placed within the family Procaviidae, and several extinct taxa.

Hyracoidea

Chiswick Chap , earlier version Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
hyraxPBDB
Sits inside
PaenungulataPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 249 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 249 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 249 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 249 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 249 occurrencesPleistocene — about 66 of 249 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 11 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 13 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 13 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

249 occurrences of Hyracoidea 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

249 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

34 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EGlib Zegdou — 30.02°N, 4.00°WSwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°EErageleit — 3.36°N, 35.80°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EShungura — 5.06°N, 36.04°EShumaysi — 21.68°N, 39.75°ELokone Sandstone — 2.22°N, 35.57°ETamaguélelt — 17.59°N, 0.25°ETamaguélelt — 17.59°N, 0.25°EMalembo — 5.34°S, 12.18°EAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°EYuxian — 39.84°N, 114.60°EGusar suite — 39.50°N, 67.60°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EIdam Unit — 25.71°N, 18.18°ETurkana Grit — 2.33°N, 35.83°EBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°E

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The named rock units Hyracoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 119 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyracoidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hyracoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Hyracoidea, 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

124 references

Each of the 249 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. 112 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 content2

Picture of Hyracoidea

Credit
Chiswick Chap , earlier version Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hyracoidea indet. · dpc:11437

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itPaenungulata through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huxley 1869)