Sanitherium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RuminantiaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
16 occurrences of Sanitherium 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
16 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
8 formations
- Chitarwata Formation3
- Keramaria Formation2
- Chhasra Formation2
- Maboko Formation1
- Lothidok Formation1
- Bakate Formation1
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The named rock units Sanitherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sanitherium and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sanitherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
277 taxa- Diamantohyus africanus5 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti5 sites
- Afrohyrax championi4 sites
- Gomphotheriidae4 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi4 sites
- Rhinocerotidae4 sites
- Trionychidae4 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus3 sites
- Bovidae3 sites
- Canthumeryx sirtensis3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Dicerorhinus3 sites
- Dorcatherium3 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi3 sites
- Lopholistriodon moruoroti3 sites
- Pelomedusidae3 sites
- Rodentia3 sites
- Suidae3 sites
- Tragulidae3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Afropithecus turkanensis2 sites
- Brochuchus2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Chilotheridium pattersoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Sanitherium, 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
15 references- Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome2
- Miocene (~ 14 Ma) Vertebrate‐Yielding Site of Palasava, Kachchh, Gujarat State, Western India: Geoheritage‐Geotourism Perspectives and Geosite Potential1
- A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India1
- Suoidea (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from the early Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan1
- Miosengi butleri, gen. et sp. nov., (Macroscelidea) from the Kalodirr Member, Lothidok Formation, early Miocene of Kenya1
- The Sanithera (Mammalia, Suoidea) from the Middle Miocene of Chios Island, Aegean Sea, Greece1
- A new Early/Mididle Miocene mammal locality from Macedonia, Greece1
- Fauna from a new Lower Miocene locality west of Lake Turkana, Kenya1
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]1
- New higher primates from the early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya1
- The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology1
- The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape Province1
Each of the 16 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. 3 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 content0
No picture of Sanitherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sanitherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRuminantia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1866