Gazella leptoceros
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GazellaPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gazella leptoceros 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gazella leptoceros 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.
Gazella leptoceros and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gazella leptoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Alcelaphus buselaphus2 sites
- Anas acuta2 sites
- Anas crecca2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Ardea cinerea2 sites
- Barbus bynni2 sites
- Gazella dorcas2 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius2 sites
- Mareca penelope2 sites
- Mergellus albellus2 sites
- Mergus serrator2 sites
- Milvus migrans2 sites
- Phalacrocorax carbo2 sites
- Phoenicopterus roseus2 sites
- Plectropterus gambensis2 sites
- Trionyx triunguis2 sites
- Anas1 site
- Anser albifrons1 site
- Anser fabalis1 site
- Aythya ferina1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
- Branta bernicla1 site
- Clarias1 site
- Homo sapiens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gazella leptoceros, 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
2 references- Relationships of the Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Kom Ombo, Upper Egypt1
- Kom Ombo: Preliminary Report on the Fauna of Late Paleolithic Sites in Upper Egypt1
Each of the 2 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. 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 Gazella leptoceros
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gazella leptoceros was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itGazella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1842)