Prodeinotherium hobleyi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProdeinotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Prodeinotherium hobleyi 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
17 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 Prodeinotherium hobleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prodeinotherium hobleyi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Prodeinotherium hobleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
265 taxa- Dorcatherium pigotti10 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi8 sites
- Rhinocerotidae8 sites
- Bovidae6 sites
- Afrohyrax championi5 sites
- Climacoceras africanus5 sites
- Crocodylus5 sites
- Equatorius africanus5 sites
- Listriodon akatikubas5 sites
- Lopholistriodon moruoroti5 sites
- Pelusios5 sites
- Trionyx5 sites
- Victoriapithecus macinnesi5 sites
- Chilotheridium pattersoni4 sites
- Creodonta4 sites
- Gomphotheriidae4 sites
- Limicolaria4 sites
- Limnopithecus legetet4 sites
- Megalochoerus khinzikebirus4 sites
- Megapedetes4 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Afrochoerodon kisumuensis3 sites
- Amphibia3 sites
- Canthumeryx sirtensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Prodeinotherium hobleyi, 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
14 references- The discovery of lower and middle Miocene vertebrates at Auchas, southern Namibia2
- New Higher Primate Fossils from the Middle Miocene Deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, Western Kenya2
- The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology2
- Cainozoic mammals from coastal Namaqualand, South Africa1
- Preliminary results of new excavations at Arrisdrift, middle Miocene of southern Namibia1
- New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene1
- New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya1
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya1
- New early Miocene vertebrate locality near Lake Rudolf, Kenya1
- Fossil Mammal Locality on Mount Elgon, Eastern Uganda1
Each of the 17 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. 2 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.
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No 3D scan of Prodeinotherium hobleyi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1911)