Palaeotragus germaini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeotragusPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Palaeotragus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
7 occurrences of Palaeotragus germaini 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
7 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Palaeotragus germaini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeotragus germaini and its relatives
MioceneWhere Palaeotragus germaini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
247 taxa- Gazella4 sites
- Struthio4 sites
- Anatidae3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Boselaphini3 sites
- Damalacra3 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi3 sites
- Elephantidae3 sites
- Hipparion3 sites
- Hystrix3 sites
- Nyanzachoerus3 sites
- Rallidae3 sites
- Viverridae3 sites
- Abudhabia sp.2 sites
- Aepyceros premelampus2 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Amphicyonidae2 sites
- Anancus kenyensis2 sites
- Anhinga rufa2 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi2 sites
- Archaeopotamus lothagamensis2 sites
- Ardeidae2 sites
- Bagridae2 sites
- Bagrus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Palaeotragus germaini, 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
6 references- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa2
- A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae, Tetraconodontinae) from the upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya1
- Un nouveau rongeur Mystromys pocockei sp. nov. (Cricetinae) de Pliocene inferieur de Langebaanweg (Region du Cap, Afrique du Sud)1
- Révision de la fuane de mammifères du Miocène supérieur de Menacer (ex-Marceau), Algérie: Discussion sur l'âge du gisement1
- Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa1
- Découverte d'un gisement de Mammifères pontiens à Douaria (Tunisie septentrionale).1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Palaeotragus germaini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Palaeotragus germaini itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeotragus germaini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeotragus germaini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPalaeotragus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1959