Kobus sigmoidalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KobusPBDB
- 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 780 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
91 occurrences of Kobus sigmoidalis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
91 occurrences- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene89%
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
- Koobi Fora Formation · Omo Group37
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group25
- Nachukui Formation · Omo Group10
- Olduvai Formation · Vogel River Series Group5
- Chiwondo Formation1
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The named rock units Kobus sigmoidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kobus sigmoidalis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Kobus sigmoidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
318 taxa- Palaeoloxodon recki53 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes50 sites
- Hipparion45 sites
- Equus41 sites
- Reduncini41 sites
- Alcelaphini40 sites
- Metridiochoerus andrewsi34 sites
- Tragelaphus nakuae34 sites
- Giraffa33 sites
- Adenota recki31 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros31 sites
- Gerontochoerus scotti30 sites
- Hominidae29 sites
- Ceratotherium simum26 sites
- Libytherium maurusium25 sites
- Menelikia lyrocera24 sites
- Tragelaphini24 sites
- Gazella23 sites
- Aepyceros melampus22 sites
- Hippopotamus karumensis21 sites
- Connochaetes gentryi20 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi20 sites
- Giraffa stillei19 sites
- Kobus kob19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Kobus sigmoidalis, 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
20 references- Family Bovidae36
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya10
- The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition9
- Plio-Pleistocene terrestrial mammal assemblage from Konso, Southern Ethiopia6
- Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa6
- Diversity and frequency distributions of Omo Group Cercopithecidae4
- Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins3
- The first skull of Australopithecus boisei2
- Mandibular postcanine dentition from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: Crown morphology, taxonomic allocations and Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution2
- Inventory of remains of Hominidae from Pliocene and Pleistocene formations of the lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia (1967-1972)2
- Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-19632
- Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids1
Each of the 91 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. 8 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
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No picture of Kobus sigmoidalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Kobus sigmoidalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kobus sigmoidalis 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 itKobus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1941