Golunda sp.

A picture published with the record for Golunda sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6 Mya2.58 Mya5.83 Mya1.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Golunda sp. 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

11 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

5 formations

Hadar — 11.13°N, 40.58°EShungura — 5.06°N, 36.03°ETatrot — 30.51°N, 77.26°EPinjor — 30.67°N, 76.89°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°E

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The named rock units Golunda sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Golunda sp. and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Golunda sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Golunda sp., 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 Golunda sp.

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 Golunda sp. 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.