Phenacotragus vanhoepeni
No picture of Phenacotragus vanhoepeni was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phenacotragus vanhoepeni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhenacotragusPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 7.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Phenacotragus vanhoepeni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene78%
- Pleistocene12%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Phenacotragus vanhoepeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phenacotragus vanhoepeni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Phenacotragus vanhoepeni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Elephantulus3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Hipparion3 sites
- Libytherium3 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis3 sites
- Tragelaphus angasii3 sites
- Agriotherium africanum2 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Bathyergidae2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Caracal caracal2 sites
- Ceratotherium2 sites
- Cercopithecidae2 sites
- Cetacea2 sites
- Chrysochloris2 sites
- Diceros bicornis2 sites
- Enhydriodon africanus2 sites
- Eurygnathohippus baardi2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Genetta2 sites
- Giraffa2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Herpestes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Phenacotragus vanhoepeni, 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
4 references- Paleobiogeography of the Malawi Rift: Age and vertebrate paleontology of the Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi1
- Elephant Shrews (Macroscelididae) from Olduvai and Makapansgat1
- The Pliocene fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa1
- The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape Province1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Phenacotragus vanhoepeni was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phenacotragus vanhoepeni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Phenacotragus vanhoepeni was found in Sketchfab.
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 itPhenacotragus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wells and Cooke 1956)