Megalotragus isaaci
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalotragusPBDB
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
32 occurrences of Megalotragus isaaci 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
32 occurrences- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene97%
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
- Koobi Fora Formation · Omo Group30
- Chiwondo Formation2
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The named rock units Megalotragus isaaci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megalotragus isaaci and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megalotragus isaaci and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Equus26 sites
- Metridiochoerus andrewsi25 sites
- Alcelaphini23 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes23 sites
- Reduncini22 sites
- Hippopotamus karumensis19 sites
- Tragelaphini19 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros19 sites
- Adenota recki18 sites
- Aepyceros melampus18 sites
- Giraffa18 sites
- Hipparion18 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis18 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki18 sites
- Hominidae17 sites
- Gerontochoerus scotti16 sites
- Menelikia lyrocera16 sites
- Pelorovis turkanensis16 sites
- Libytherium maurusium15 sites
- Parmularius eppsi15 sites
- Connochaetes gentryi14 sites
- Gazella praethomsoni14 sites
- Giraffa stillei14 sites
- Giraffa pygmaea13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Megalotragus isaaci, 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
5 references- Family Bovidae25
- The bone assemblages from the excavated sites3
- Paleobiogeography of the Malawi Rift: Age and vertebrate paleontology of the Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi2
- The most complete known Neogene Glyptodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from northern South America: taxonomic, paleobiogeographic, and phylogenetic implications1
- Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa1
Each of the 32 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 content0
No picture of Megalotragus isaaci was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megalotragus isaaci, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megalotragus isaaci 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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What may have been alongside itMegalotragus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1991