Byzantinia hellenicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ByzantiniaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Byzantinia hellenicus 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
4 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 Byzantinia hellenicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Byzantinia hellenicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Byzantinia hellenicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Hipparion3 sites
- Acerorhinus2 sites
- Ceratotherium neumayri2 sites
- Chilotherium2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Microstonyx major2 sites
- Occitanomys provocator2 sites
- Pliospalax2 sites
- Prostrepsiceros2 sites
- Tragoportax2 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia1 site
- Allocritecus aylasevimae1 site
- Amphimachairodus giganteus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bohlinia attica1 site
- Byzantinia pikermiensis1 site
- Choerolophodon1 site
- Choerolophodon pentelici1 site
- Criotherium1 site
- Ctenocervus1 site
- Giraffidae1 site
- Hansdebruijnia erksinae1 site
- Hansdebruijnia neutrum1 site
- Hellicella sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Byzantinia hellenicus, 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
4 references- A preliminary zonation of the continental Neogene of Anatolia based on Rodents1
- Geology of a new Late Miocene mammal locality in central Anatolia, Turkey1
- Mammalian fossils of Samos and Pikermi, Part 1. The Turolian rodents and insectivores of Samos1
- A new Ruscinomys (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Tertiary (Pikermian) of Samos, Greece1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Byzantinia hellenicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Byzantinia hellenicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Byzantinia hellenicus 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 itByzantinia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Freudenthal 1970)