Simatherium

Simatherium is an extinct genus of bovid that inhabited Africa during the Neogene period.

No picture of Simatherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Simatherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BoviniPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6 Mya – 2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

32 occurrences of Simatherium 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

32 occurrences

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

6 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.01°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 3.57°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°E

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The named rock units Simatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Simatherium and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Simatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Simatherium, 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

10 references

Each of the 32 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 Simatherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Simatherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Simatherium 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBovini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dietrich 1941