Damalops palaeindicus
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- DamalopsPBDB
- 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 most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Damalops palaeindicus 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene45%
- Pleistocene55%
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
- Kuruksai suite Formation1
- Pinjor Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Damalops palaeindicus 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.
Damalops palaeindicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Damalops palaeindicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Bovidae2 sites
- Equus sivalensis2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Acinonyx pardinensis1 site
- Allohippus stenonis1 site
- Antilospira1 site
- Archidiskodon gromovi1 site
- Axis1 site
- Boselaphus1 site
- Canis1 site
- Caprinae1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis1 site
- Dicerorhinus1 site
- Elaphurus1 site
- Ellobius1 site
- Equus1 site
- Eucladoceros1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Gazellospira1 site
- Hemibos occipitalis1 site
- Homotherium crenatidens1 site
- Libralces gallicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Damalops palaeindicus, 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- New fossil mammalian assemblages and first record of ostrich from the Pinjore (Pinjor) formation (2.58e0.63 Ma) of Siwalik Hills near Chandigarh, northern India1
- Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia1
- Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Damalops palaeindicus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Damalops palaeindicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDamalops through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falconer 1859