Eotragus

Eotragus is an extinct genus of early bovid. Members of this genus had a wide range inhabiting Europe, Africa, and Asia during the Miocene around 20-18 million years ago. It is related to the modern nilgai and four-horned antelope. It was small and probably lived in woodland environments.

Eotragus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BoselaphiniPBDB
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 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 33 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

33 occurrences of Eotragus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

33 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

9 formations

Maboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EAntonios — 40.50°N, 23.00°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WLoh — 45.34°N, 101.83°EKeramaria — 38.31°N, 26.13°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Eotragus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eotragus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eotragus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

657 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Eotragus, 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

27 references

Each of the 33 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. 15 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 Eotragus

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 Eotragus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBoselaphini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilgrim 1939