Palaeotragus

Palaeotragus is a genus of very large, primitive, okapi-like giraffids from the Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia.

Palaeotragus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
GiraffidaePBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesMiocene — about 80 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 97 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Palaeotragus 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

97 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

33 formations

Bahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°EMaboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EPikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EPoate — 35.71°N, 111.66°ELantian — 34.15°N, 109.33°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°ENikiti — 40.23°N, 23.70°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ETiim — 0.84°N, 35.82°EHuliuhe — 39.84°N, 114.60°EAgha Jari — 34.48°N, 44.63°EBakhtiari — 37.06°N, 42.14°EHofuf — 25.68°N, 49.48°EShanwang — 34.26°N, 108.94°EXianshuihe — 43.65°N, 112.66°ELengshuigou — 34.26°N, 108.94°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EHujialiang — 35.58°N, 103.42°E

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The named rock units Palaeotragus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeotragus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palaeotragus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

843 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Palaeotragus, 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

59 references

Each of the 97 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. 47 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 content1

Picture of Palaeotragus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeotragus 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1861