Rhinoceros sivalensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinocerosPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Rhinoceros
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinoceros
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 129 ka.
8 occurrences of Rhinoceros sivalensis on record. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene23%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene42%
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
- Dhok Pathan Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Irrawaddy Formation1
- Tatrot Formation1
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The named rock units Rhinoceros sivalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Equus sivalensis3 sites
- Rhinoceros palaeindicus3 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
- Chilotherium intermedium2 sites
- Hexaprotodon sivalensis2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Alcelaphini1 site
- Antilopini1 site
- Bison1 site
- Bos1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Bubalus1 site
- Camelus1 site
- Camelus sivalensis1 site
- Candona1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chara1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Choerolophodon corrugatus1 site
- Circotherium sivalense1 site
- Coelodonta1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rhinoceros sivalensis, 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
8 references- Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia1
- Taphonomy, fauna, environment and ecology of Upper Sivaliks (Plio-Pleistocene) near Chandigarh, India1
- A comparison of larger fossil mammals in the stratotypes of the Chinji, Nagri and Dhok Pathan Formations (Punjab, Pakistan)1
- Fossil mammals of the Upper Siwalik and the problem of the boundary between the Neogene and the Quaternary system in India1
- Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History1
- Some Miocene and upper Siwalik [lower Pleistocene] vertebrates from Ceylon1
- Descriptions of the molar teeth and other remains of Mammalia1
- Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Being the fossil zoology of the Sewalik Hills in the north of India. Illustrations–Part VIII Suidae and Rhinocerotidae1
Each of the 8 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.
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No picture of Rhinoceros sivalensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rhinoceros sivalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhinoceros sivalensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer and Cautley 1847