Stegodon ganesa
Ghedoghedo · 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
- StegodonPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Stegodon ganesa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Stegodon ganesa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Stegodon ganesa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Bos namadicus3 sites
- Stegodon insignis3 sites
- Antilope cervicapra2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
- Cervus duvauceli2 sites
- Elephas2 sites
- Elephas hysudricus2 sites
- Equus namadicus2 sites
- Hexaprotodon palaeindicus2 sites
- Homo2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Antilope1 site
- Axis axis1 site
- Bos gaurus1 site
- Bos planifrons1 site
- Boselaphus1 site
- Bubalus bubalis1 site
- Cervus unicolor1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus (Hemionus) hemionus1 site
- Equus caballus1 site
- Hexaprotodon namadicus1 site
- Hexaprotodon sivalensis1 site
- Hippopotamus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stegodon ganesa, 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
2 references- Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka2
- Skull cap of an early man from the Narmada Valley alluvium (Pleistocene) of central India1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Stegodon ganesa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stegodon ganesa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStegodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Falconer and Cautley 1875)