Alephis lyrix
Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Sits inside
- AlephisPBDB
- 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 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.55 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Alephis lyrix on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Alephis lyrix and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Alephis lyrix and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Metaxytherium subapenninum2 sites
- Stephanorhinus jeanvireti2 sites
- Ammonia1 site
- Anancus arvernensis1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenotus lawleyi1 site
- Calcidiscus leptoporus1 site
- Calcidiscus macintyrei1 site
- Calciosolenia1 site
- Ceratholithus cristatus1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
- Discoaster1 site
- Discoaster brouweri1 site
- Discoaster surculus1 site
- Elphidium1 site
- Gaminlitella rotula1 site
- Gephyrocaspa sp.1 site
- Globigerina bulloides1 site
- Globigerina falconensis1 site
- Globigerinella obesa1 site
- Globigerinella siphonifera1 site
- Globigerinita glutinata1 site
- Globigerinoides1 site
- Globigerinoides elongatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alephis lyrix, 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- The early Pliocene mammal assemblage of Val di Pugna (Tuscany, Italy) in the light of calcareous plankton biostratigraphical data and paleoecological observations1
- Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia.1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Alephis lyrix
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alephis lyrix 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAlephis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gromolard 1980