Ovis

Ovis

Uncredited · 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
Also called
sheepPBDB
Sits inside
CapriniPBDB
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 1.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 112 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 58 of 112 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 51 of 112 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 79 occurrences1.4 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Ovis 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

112 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

6 formations

Nubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WNubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°E

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The named rock units Ovis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ovis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Ovis, 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

78 references

Each of the 112 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. 66 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 Ovis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758