Camelus sivalensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CamelusPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Camelus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Camelus sivalensis 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene34%
- Pleistocene66%
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
2 formations
- Pinjor Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Tatrot Formation1
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The named rock units Camelus sivalensis 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.
Camelus sivalensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Camelus sivalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Cervus2 sites
- Equus sivalensis2 sites
- Proboscidea2 sites
- Alcelaphini1 site
- Antilopini1 site
- Boselaphus1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bovinae1 site
- Bubalus1 site
- Candona1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Cervus (Elaphus)1 site
- Chara1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Coelodonta1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Crustacea1 site
- Demelops palaeindicus1 site
- Elephas hysudricus1 site
- Elephas planifrons1 site
- Elephas platycephalus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hemibos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Camelus sivalensis, 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
3 references- Record of Bovidean fossils from the Pinjor Formation of the Siwalik Group, Solan District, Himachal Pradesh2
- Taphonomy, fauna, environment and ecology of Upper Sivaliks (Plio-Pleistocene) near Chandigarh, India1
- Note on the fossil camel of the Sivalik Hills1
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 content1
Picture of Camelus sivalensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCamelus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer and Cautley 1836