Tachyoryctes

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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.

Sits inside

TachyoryctiniPBDB

Diet

herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia

Life habit

fossorialPBDB

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Miocene5%
• Pliocene41%
• Pleistocene7%
• Holocene47%

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.

• Bos taurus6 sites
• Caprini6 sites
• Alcelaphus buselaphus5 sites
• Equus quagga burchelli5 sites
• Eudorcas thomsoni5 sites
• Australopithecus afarensis4 sites
• Connochaetes taurinus4 sites
• Sylvicapra grimmia4 sites
• Bovini3 sites
• Giraffa camelopardalis3 sites
• Hipparion3 sites
• Lepus capensis3 sites
• Madoqua3 sites
• Millardia coppensi3 sites
• Nanger granti3 sites
• Phacochoerus aethiopicus3 sites
• Raphicerus campestris3 sites
• Taurotragus oryx3 sites
• Tragelaphus scriptus3 sites
• Acomys2 sites
• Aepyceros melampus2 sites
• Agriotherium2 sites
• Anancus2 sites
• Arvicanthis2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Tachyoryctes, 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.

• Faunal Evidence for Early Stockkeeping in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya: Preliminary FindingsGifford-Gonzalez and Kimengich, 1984 · In: Origin and Early Development of Food Producing Cultures in North-Eastern Africa; Polish Academy of Sciences; Poznan Archaeological Museum · book/book chapter4
• Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-1973Johanson et al., 1976 · Earliest Man and Environments in the East Rudolf Basin · book/book chapter4
• Early Pottery and Pastoral Cultures of the Central Rift Valley, KenyaBower and Nelson, 1977 · Man2
• Mio-Pliocene Mammals from the Middle Awash, EthiopiaHaileSelassie et al., 2004 · Geobios · journal article1
• Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Kenyan Central Rift Indicated by Micromammals from Enkapune Ya Muto RockshelterMarean et al., 1994 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, EthiopiaWoldeGabriel et al., 1994 · Nature · journal article1
• Implications of Late Quaternary mammalian fauna from Lukenya Hill (South-Central Kenya) for paleoenvironmental change and faunal extinctionsMarean, 1992 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• Les proboscidiens des grands gisements a hominides Plio-Pleistocenes d'Afrique orientaleBeden, 1981 · In: L'Environment des Hominides au Plio-Pleistocene. Fondation Singer-Polignac. · book/book chapter1

Each of the 15 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.

What may have been alongside itTachyoryctini through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rüppell 1835