Boselaphus namadicus
Boselaphus namadicus is an extinct species of bovid that lived in South Asia from the Late Pliocene to the Mid Pleistocene.
No picture of Boselaphus namadicus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Boselaphus namadicus 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 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Boselaphus namadicus 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- Pliocene18%
- Pleistocene82%
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
1 formation
- Pinjor Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Boselaphus namadicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Boselaphus namadicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Boselaphus namadicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Antilope cervicapra1 site
- Axis axis1 site
- Bos1 site
- Bos namadicus1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bubalus palaeoindicus1 site
- Caprinae1 site
- Cervus duvauceli1 site
- Cervus unicolor1 site
- Crocuta sivalensis1 site
- Damalops palaeindicus1 site
- Equus namadicus1 site
- Equus sivalensis1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Muntiacus muntjak1 site
- Palaeoloxodon namadicus1 site
- Panthera1 site
- Struthio camelus1 site
- Sus1 site
- Sus scrofa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Boselaphus namadicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- New fossil mammalian assemblages and first record of ostrich from the Pinjore (Pinjor) formation (2.58e0.63 Ma) of Siwalik Hills near Chandigarh, northern India1
- Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Boselaphus namadicus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Boselaphus namadicus 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 Boselaphus namadicus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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.