Thyrohyrax domorictus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThyrohyraxPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Thyrohyrax domorictus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Thyrohyrax domorictus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thyrohyrax domorictus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Thyrohyrax domorictus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Hyainailourinae3 sites
- Pachyhyrax crassidentatus3 sites
- Titanohyrax angustidens3 sites
- Aegyptopithecus zeuxis2 sites
- Apidium phiomense2 sites
- Bothriogenys fraasi2 sites
- Megalohyrax eocaenus2 sites
- Monamys simonsi2 sites
- Nabotherium aegyptiacum2 sites
- Neophiomys paraphiomyoides2 sites
- Palaelodus2 sites
- Simonsius grangeri2 sites
- Varanus2 sites
- Xenerodiops mycter2 sites
- Afrotarsius chatrathi1 site
- Apidium bowni1 site
- Apidium moustafai1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Cleopatrodon ayeshae1 site
- Cleopatrodon robusta1 site
- Crinifer1 site
- Gaudeamus aegyptius1 site
- Geniohyus magnus1 site
- Goliathia andrewsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thyrohyrax domorictus, 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- New Oligocene hyracoids from Egypt5
- A new Oligocene hyrax from the Jebel el Quatrani Formation, Fayum, Egypt3
Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Thyrohyrax domorictus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
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- not stated by the source
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- Specimen
- Thyrohyrax domorictus · dpc:11027
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itThyrohyrax through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1973