Caprinae

The subfamily Caprinae, also sometimes referred to as the tribe Caprini, is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids. A member of this subfamily is called a caprine.

Caprinae

Joe n bloe ( talk ) Joseph N Hall · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BovidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 69 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 46 of 69 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 69 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences8.725 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Caprinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

69 occurrences

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

10 formations

Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.02°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EBou Hanifia — 35.30°N, 0.10°WAgha Jari — 34.48°N, 44.63°EAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EPinjor — 30.85°N, 76.75°E

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The named rock units Caprinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caprinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Caprinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

949 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Caprinae, 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

49 references

Each of the 69 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. 37 further references are not listed. 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 Caprinae

Credit
Joe n bloe ( talk ) Joseph N Hall
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Caprinae 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 itBovidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1821)