Limnopithecus legetet
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LimnopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hominidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hominidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
6 occurrences of Limnopithecus legetet on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Maboko Formation4
- Upper Koru Series Formation · Kericho Phonolites Group1
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The named rock units Limnopithecus legetet 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.
Limnopithecus legetet and its relatives
MioceneWhere Limnopithecus legetet and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Climacoceras africanus4 sites
- Dorcatherium chappuisi4 sites
- Megapedetes4 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi4 sites
- Victoriapithecus4 sites
- Victoriapithecus macinnesi4 sites
- Afrohyrax championi3 sites
- Amphibia3 sites
- Dorcatherium pigotti3 sites
- Reptilia3 sites
- Sivapithecus3 sites
- Varanidae3 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus2 sites
- Amphechinus2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Cichlidae2 sites
- Crocodylidae2 sites
- Dicerorhinus2 sites
- Dissopsalis pyroclasticus2 sites
- Eotragus2 sites
- Equatorius africanus2 sites
- Indet. indet.2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Limnopithecus legetet, 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
6 references- New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene1
- Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya1
- New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- New Potassium-Argon Age Determinations Relevant to the Miocene Fossil Mammal Sequence in East Africa1
- Fossil Mammal Locality on Mount Elgon, Eastern Uganda1
Each of the 6 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Limnopithecus Legetet · nmk:ca:431
No picture of Limnopithecus legetet 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 Limnopithecus legetet, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLimnopithecus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hopwood 1933