Bunohyrax fajumensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BunohyraxPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bunohyrax fajumensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bunohyrax fajumensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bunohyrax fajumensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bunohyrax fajumensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Anthropoidea1 site
- Aprionodon lerichei1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Arsinoitherium1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Bothriogenys gorringei1 site
- Bunohyrax major1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharhinus egertoni1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chalicotheriidae1 site
- Crocodylus megarhinus1 site
- Dacquemys paleomorpha1 site
- Eogavialis gavialoides1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Eremopezus eocaenus1 site
- Galeocerdo mayumbensis1 site
- Geniohyus mirus1 site
- Gigantochersina ammon1 site
- Ginglymostoma malembeense1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bunohyrax fajumensis, 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- Premiere découverte d'une faune mammalienne terrestre paleogene d'Afrique sub-saharienne1
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt1
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. 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 Bunohyrax fajumensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bunohyrax fajumensis 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 itBunohyrax through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1904)