Sylvicapra

Chuckupd at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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- Also called
- duikerPBDB
- Sits inside
- CephalophiniPBDB
- 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 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
38 occurrences of Sylvicapra on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
38 occurrences- Pleistocene52%
- Holocene48%
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
- Kapthurin Formation2
- Humbu Formation · Peninj Group2
- Nubia Formation1
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The named rock units Sylvicapra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sylvicapra and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sylvicapra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
294 taxa- Phacochoerus aethiopicus22 sites
- Alcelaphus buselaphus19 sites
- Raphicerus campestris19 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli18 sites
- Taurotragus oryx18 sites
- Oreotragus oreotragus15 sites
- Redunca fulvorufula15 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius14 sites
- Hystrix africaeaustralis14 sites
- Syncerus caffer14 sites
- Tragelaphus scriptus14 sites
- Connochaetes taurinus13 sites
- Mellivora capensis13 sites
- Panthera leo13 sites
- Procavia capensis13 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros13 sites
- Ourebia ourebi12 sites
- Papio ursinus12 sites
- Bos taurus11 sites
- Eudorcas thomsoni11 sites
- Felis lybica11 sites
- Potamochoerus porcus11 sites
- Lepus10 sites
- Orycteropus afer10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Sylvicapra, 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
23 references- Implications of Late Quaternary mammalian fauna from Lukenya Hill (South-Central Kenya) for paleoenvironmental change and faunal extinctions7
- Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia)4
- The Prehistory of Eastern Zambia3
- Paleofauna composition and paleoenvironment of Peninj (Morita Nane Site) in West Lake Natron Basin,northern Tanzania2
- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab2
- Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa2
- The late quaternary mammalian fauna of Nelson Bay Cave (Cape Province, South Africa): Its implications for megafaunal extinctions and environmental and cultural change2
- Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels1
- Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Kenyan Central Rift Indicated by Micromammals from Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter1
- Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa1
- Environmental, Ecological and Paleoanthropological Implications of the Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna from Equus Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa1
- The Late Prehistory of the Eastern Sahel1
Each of the 38 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. 11 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 content3

Picture of Sylvicapra
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Chuckupd at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Sylvicapra sp. · MNHN:ZM:MO-1947-871
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCephalophini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilby 1837