Atherus africanus
No picture of Atherus africanus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Atherus africanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Atherus africanus 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Atherus africanus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Atherus africanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Amphibia2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Cephalophus2 sites
- Cephalophus monticola2 sites
- Cercopithecidae2 sites
- Cercopithecus2 sites
- Cricetomys2 sites
- Funisciurus2 sites
- Galagoides2 sites
- Gonaxis pusillus2 sites
- Hylochoerus meinertzhageni2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Kobus kob2 sites
- Leporidae2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
- Maizania2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Neotragus2 sites
- Ophidia2 sites
- Orycteropus afer2 sites
- Ourebia ourebi2 sites
- Papio anubis2 sites
- Potamochoerus porcus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Atherus africanus, 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- Les faunes de vertebres quaternaires en Afrique centrale1
- The use of fish remains in African archaeozoology1
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 content0
No picture of Atherus africanus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Atherus africanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Atherus africanus 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.