Kichechia zamanae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KichechiaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Paradoxurinae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Viverridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Kichechia zamanae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Kichechia zamanae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kichechia zamanae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Kichechia zamanae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Anasinopa leakeyi4 sites
- Hecubides euryodon4 sites
- Afrohyrax championi3 sites
- Hyaenodon (Isohyaenodon) andrewsi3 sites
- Kelba quadeemae3 sites
- Paraphiomys3 sites
- Paraphiomys pigotti3 sites
- Siamotragulus songhorensis3 sites
- Walangania africanus3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus2 sites
- Brochuchus2 sites
- Canthumeryx sirtensis2 sites
- Chalicotherium rusingense2 sites
- Diamantomys luederitzi2 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi2 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti2 sites
- Elmerimys2 sites
- Hecubides macrodon2 sites
- Hyaenodon2 sites
- Hyaenodon (Isohyaenodon) pilgrimi2 sites
- Kichechia savagei2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
- Pseudaelurus africanus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kichechia zamanae, 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- Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa5
- New hominoid fossils from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya1
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Kichechia zamanae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kichechia zamanae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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.
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What may have been alongside itKichechia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Savage 1965