Sivapithecus indicus
Kippelboy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SivapithecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hominidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hominidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sivapithecus indicus 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Dhok Pathan Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Sivapithecus indicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sivapithecus indicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sivapithecus indicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- ? Miotragoceras sp.1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Anthracotherium1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Chalicotherium1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Conohyus sindiensis1 site
- Dissopsalis1 site
- Dorcabune1 site
- Dorcatherium1 site
- Dorcatherium minus1 site
- Eomellivora1 site
- Gaindatherium browni1 site
- Giraffa priscilla1 site
- Giraffokeryx punjabiensis1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Helicoportax1 site
- Hemimeryx1 site
- Hippopotamodon1 site
- Kanisamys1 site
- Kubanotragus1 site
- Listriodon1 site
- Listriodon pentapotamiae1 site
- Muridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sivapithecus indicus, 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
3 references- Siwalik mammals of the Jammu Sub-Himalaya, India: an appraisal of their diversity and habitats.1
- New hominoid skull material from the Miocene of Pakistan1
- New skull remains of Sivapithecus from Pakistan1
Each of the 3 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 content3
Picture of Sivapithecus indicus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Kippelboy
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Sivapithecus indicus · amnh:fm:19411
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- geronimo0232
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSivapithecus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilgrim 1910)