Madoqua

The dik-diks are four species of small antelope in the genus Madoqua, all of which live in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa.

Madoqua

Yathin S Krishnappa · 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
dikdikPBDB
Sits inside
AntilopiniPBDB
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 least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 22 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 22 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Madoqua 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

22 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

10 formations

Nachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°E

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The named rock units Madoqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Madoqua and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Madoqua and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Madoqua, 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

14 references

Each of the 22 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. 2 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 content3

Picture of Madoqua

Credit
Yathin S Krishnappa
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Madoqua sp. · MNHN:ZM:MO-1977-17

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
zmmu
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAntilopini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilby 1837