Burtoa sp.
No picture of Burtoa sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Burtoa sp. 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.
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
7 occurrences of Burtoa sp. 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
7 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 Burtoa sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Burtoa sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Burtoa sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Gulella sp.6 sites
- Carnivora5 sites
- Diamantomys luederitzi5 sites
- Limicolaria5 sites
- Tayloria sp.5 sites
- Gonaxis sp.4 sites
- Homorus sp.4 sites
- Ophidia4 sites
- Rodentia4 sites
- Siamotragulus songhorensis4 sites
- Trochonanina sp.4 sites
- Afrocricetodon songhori3 sites
- Amphechinus3 sites
- Burtoa nilotica3 sites
- Edouardia sp.3 sites
- Insectivora3 sites
- Krapfiella sp.3 sites
- Maizania3 sites
- Paranomalurus3 sites
- Paraphiomys3 sites
- Walangania africanus3 sites
- Afrohyrax championi2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Burtoa sp., 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
5 references- The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya3
- First African record of the Miocene Asian mouse-deer Siamotragulus (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Tragulidae): implications for the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the advanced selenodont tragulids1
- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania1
- Nouvelles decouvertes dans le Miocene inferiur de Napak, Ouganda Oriental [New discoveries in lower Miocene strata at Napak, Eastern Uganda]1
- Fossil Mammal Locality on Mount Elgon, Eastern Uganda1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Burtoa sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Burtoa sp. 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.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.