Leptorycteropus guilielmi
A. C. Tatarinov · CC0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- LeptorycteropusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Orycteropodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Orycteropodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Leptorycteropus guilielmi 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
3 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
- Nawata and Nachukui Formation · Lothagam Group2
- Nawata Formation1
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The named rock units Leptorycteropus guilielmi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptorycteropus guilielmi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Leptorycteropus guilielmi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
- Eurygnathohippus turkanense3 sites
- Hexaprotodon3 sites
- Hippotherium primigenium3 sites
- Kubwaxerus3 sites
- Primelephas korotorensis3 sites
- Stegotetrabelodon orbus3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Aepyceros premelampus2 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Anancus kenyensis2 sites
- Archaeopotamus lothagamensis2 sites
- Boselaphini2 sites
- Bovini2 sites
- Brachypotherium2 sites
- Colobinae2 sites
- Crocodylus2 sites
- Damalacra2 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi2 sites
- Dinofelis2 sites
- Elephantidae2 sites
- Eurygnathohippus2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Hippotragini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Leptorycteropus guilielmi, 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
2 references- Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa2
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa1
Each of the 3 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 Leptorycteropus guilielmi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- A. C. Tatarinov
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leptorycteropus guilielmi 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 itLeptorycteropus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patterson 1975