Tragoportax rugosifrons
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TragoportaxPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Tragoportax rugosifrons 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Tragoportax rugosifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tragoportax rugosifrons and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tragoportax rugosifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Gazella8 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici6 sites
- Ictitherium6 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi5 sites
- Hipparion5 sites
- Microstonyx major5 sites
- Nisidorcas planicornis5 sites
- Plioviverrops orbignyi5 sites
- Hipparion dietrichi4 sites
- Hipparion macedonicum4 sites
- Prostrepsiceros4 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia3 sites
- Gazella pilgrimi3 sites
- Palaeoryx majori3 sites
- Samotherium boissieri3 sites
- Skoufotragus laticeps3 sites
- Tragocerus3 sites
- Ancylotherium pentelicum2 sites
- Anisodon macedonicus2 sites
- Criotherium2 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum2 sites
- Dicerorhinus2 sites
- Gazella gaudryi2 sites
- Giraffa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tragoportax rugosifrons, 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
8 references- Late Miocene mammal localities of the lower Axios valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their stratigraphic significance3
- First record of ostriches (Aves, Struthioniformes, Struthionidae) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria with taxonomic and zoogeographic discussion1
- The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of the Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: New Collection 14. Bovidae1
- The Late Miocene vertebrate locality of Perivolaki, Thessaly, Greece. 9. Cervidae and Bovidae1
- Découverte d'un nouveau gisement de Vertébrés dans le Miocène supérieur de Macédoine (Grèce)1
- Notiz über Säugetierreste von der Insel Samos in der Sammlung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums Hamburg (Notes on mammals from Samos Island in the collection of the geologic-paleontologic Institute and Museum of Hamburg)1
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.1
- Die fossilen Cavicornier von Samos1
Each of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Tragoportax rugosifrons
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Tragoportax rugosifrons 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.
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What may have been alongside itTragoportax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlosser 1904)