Alcelaphus kattwinkeli
Dr Arthur T. Hopwood · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- AlcelaphusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Alcelaphus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 780 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
24 occurrences of Alcelaphus kattwinkeli 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
24 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
6 formations
- Olduvai Formation · Vogel River Series Group5
- Humbu Formation · Peninj Group4
- Chemoigut Formation3
- Chiwondo Formation3
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group3
- Matabaietu Formation · Awash Group1
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The named rock units Alcelaphus kattwinkeli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alcelaphus kattwinkeli and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Alcelaphus kattwinkeli and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Palaeoloxodon recki20 sites
- Alcelaphini14 sites
- Equus13 sites
- Ceratotherium simum11 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros10 sites
- Bovidae8 sites
- Connochaetes taurinus8 sites
- Crocodylus8 sites
- Hipparion8 sites
- Hippopotamus gorgops8 sites
- Hippopotamus7 sites
- Bovini6 sites
- Giraffidae6 sites
- Hippotragus niro6 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes6 sites
- Osteichthyes6 sites
- Tragelaphini6 sites
- Antilopini5 sites
- Connochaetes5 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi5 sites
- Giraffa pygmaea5 sites
- Libytherium maurusium5 sites
- Syncerus acoelotus5 sites
- Theropithecus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Alcelaphus kattwinkeli, 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
20 references- New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini2
- La faune des depots pleistocenes de Ouest du lac Natron (Tanzanie) interpretation biostratigraphique2
- Geology,fauna and palaeoenvironments of the Ngorora Formation,Kenya Rift Valley2
- The stratigraphy of the Peninj beds and the provenance of the Natron australopithecine mandible2
- Extinct ostrich eggshell (Aves: Struthionidae) from the Pliocene Chiwondo Beds, Malawi: implications for the potential biostratigraphic correlation of African Neogene deposits1
- Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids1
- The first Paranthropus from the Malawi Rift1
- Dissertation, personal communication1
- Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV, and the Masek Beds, 1968-711
- New antelope fossils from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Hippotragini (Bovidae, Mammalia)1
- Oldest Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift1
- Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo Habilis1
Each of the 24 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. 8 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 content1
Picture of Alcelaphus kattwinkeli
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Arthur T. Hopwood
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alcelaphus kattwinkeli was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itAlcelaphus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scwarz 1932)