Gazella

A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella. There are also seven species included in two further genera; Eudorcas and Nanger, which were formerly considered subgenera of Gazella. A third former subgenus, Procapra, includes three living species of Asian gazelles.

Gazella

Mvshreeram · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
gazellePBDB
Sits inside
AntilopiniPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 482 occurrencesMiocene — about 154 of 482 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 101 of 482 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 215 of 482 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 11 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 15 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 23 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 19 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 20 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 20 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 34 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 55 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 85 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 60 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 57 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

482 occurrences of Gazella 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

482 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

84 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.23°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 3.88°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 4.18°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 35.23°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°ENubia — 22.88°N, 30.64°ENubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 22.50°N, 30.75°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.07°N, 36.03°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°ELantian — 34.20°N, 109.26°EPikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°EChinji — 32.79°N, 72.93°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EMaboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EDytiko — 40.88°N, 22.55°EDytiko — 40.84°N, 22.56°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°E

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The named rock units Gazella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 220 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gazella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gazella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,445 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 402 sites for Gazella, and this reads 240 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

207 references

Each of the 482 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. 195 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 content2

Picture of Gazella

Credit
Mvshreeram
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
kenchoo
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAntilopini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blaineville 1816)