Cephalophini

No picture of Cephalophini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cephalophini itself, so it was not used. 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 Cephalophini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntilopinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 79 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 79 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 37 of 79 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 48 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

79 occurrences of Cephalophini 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

79 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

Kapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EVogel River Series — 3.19°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°E

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The named rock units Cephalophini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cephalophini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cephalophini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Cephalophini, 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

40 references

Each of the 79 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. 28 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

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No picture of Cephalophini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cephalophini itself, so it was not used.

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 Cephalophini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cephalophini 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 itAntilopinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blyth 1863)