Alforjas

Alforjas is an extinct genus of camelid, endemic to North America. They lived during the Late Miocene 10.3—5.3 mya existing for approximately 5 million years.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CamelinaePBDB
Diet
browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 29 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

29 occurrences of Alforjas 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

29 occurrences

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

11 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WPopotosa — 34.80°N, 106.90°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WBridwell — 33.70°N, 101.10°WMuddy Creek — 35.70°N, 115.20°WQuiburis — 32.50°N, 110.60°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WOro Loma — 36.52°N, 120.54°WJuchipila — 21.61°N, 102.99°W

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The named rock units Alforjas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alforjas and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alforjas and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Alforjas, 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

16 references

Each of the 29 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. 4 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 content0

No picture of Alforjas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alforjas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrison 1979