Libytherium

No picture of Libytherium 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 Libytherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SivatherinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 88 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 38 of 88 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 45 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 25 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 21 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 15 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6 Mya – 774 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Libytherium 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

88 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

16 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.22°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.68°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 4.16°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.74°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°EMuluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°E

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The named rock units Libytherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Libytherium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Libytherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Libytherium, 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

30 references

Each of the 88 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. 18 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 content0

No picture of Libytherium 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 Libytherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Libytherium 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 itSivatherinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1892