Giraffa stillei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GiraffaPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Giraffa
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
61 occurrences of Giraffa stillei on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
61 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
7 formations
- Vogel River Series Formation28
- Koobi Fora Formation23
- Nachukui Formation3
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group2
- Chiwondo Formation2
- Warwire Formation · Albertine Group1
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The named rock units Giraffa stillei 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.
Giraffa stillei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Giraffa stillei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
343 taxa- Libytherium maurusium37 sites
- Giraffa jumae35 sites
- Hipparion34 sites
- Ceratotherium simum32 sites
- Gazella30 sites
- Hominidae28 sites
- Alcelaphini27 sites
- Reduncini26 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus25 sites
- Ceratotherium24 sites
- Loxodonta exoptata23 sites
- Rhinocerotidae21 sites
- Tragelaphini20 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis19 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi18 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki18 sites
- Aepyceros melampus17 sites
- Equus17 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes17 sites
- Saccostomus17 sites
- Tragelaphus17 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros17 sites
- Adenota recki16 sites
- Hyaenidae16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Giraffa stillei, 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
11 references- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania28
- Family Giraffidae23
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa2
- The first Paranthropus from the Malawi Rift1
- South Turkwel: a new Pliocene hominid site in Kenya1
- Hippopotamidae,Mammalia,Artiodactyla from the Western Rift,Lake Albert Basin,Uganda;preliminary study1
- Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV, and the Masek Beds, 1968-711
- Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia1
- Oldest Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift1
- Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia1
- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19731
Each of the 61 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.
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No picture of Giraffa stillei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Giraffa stillei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Giraffa stillei 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGiraffa through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1947