Megalohyrax

Megalohyrax is an extinct hyrax-grouped genus of herbivorous mammal that lived during the Oligocene, about 33-30 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Africa and in Asia Minor.

Megalohyrax

Charles Robert Knight (1874 — 1953) · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
PliohyracidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41.03 Mya15.98 Mya56.8 Mya13 Mya

10 occurrences of Megalohyrax on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EGlib Zegdou — 30.02°N, 4.00°WMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EShumaysi — 21.68°N, 39.75°E

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The named rock units Megalohyrax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalohyrax and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Megalohyrax and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Megalohyrax, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 content2

Picture of Megalohyrax

Credit
Charles Robert Knight (1874 — 1953)
Licence
Public Domain
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
Megalohyrax sp. · dpc:17893

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 itPliohyracidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Andrews 1903