Menelikia lyrocera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MenelikiaPBDB
- 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.
60 occurrences of Menelikia lyrocera 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
60 occurrences- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
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
4 formations
- Koobi Fora Formation28
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group20
- Nachukui Formation · Omo Group6
- Lusso Beds Formation · Semliki Group1
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The named rock units Menelikia lyrocera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Menelikia lyrocera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Menelikia lyrocera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Kolpochoerus limnetes36 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki31 sites
- Alcelaphini30 sites
- Equus30 sites
- Reduncini30 sites
- Hipparion29 sites
- Aepyceros melampus25 sites
- Metridiochoerus andrewsi25 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis24 sites
- Adenota recki23 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros22 sites
- Giraffa21 sites
- Gerontochoerus scotti20 sites
- Tragelaphini20 sites
- Tragelaphus nakuae20 sites
- Hippopotamus karumensis19 sites
- Hominidae19 sites
- Libytherium maurusium16 sites
- Megalotragus isaaci16 sites
- Gazella15 sites
- Gazella praethomsoni15 sites
- Giraffa pygmaea15 sites
- Giraffa stillei15 sites
- Kobus kob15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Menelikia lyrocera, 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
13 references- Family Bovidae28
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya6
- The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia6
- The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition5
- Incidence of four gastrointestinal parasite worms in group of cricetomas,Lukaya-Democratic Republic of Congo4
- Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa3
- Climatic environment and air quality in the farrowing units of a pig house2
- Personal communication regarding the Omo Suidae1
- Suid remains from the upper Semliki area,Zaire1
- The Semliki fossil bovids1
- Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Upper Semliki1
- New orchids from the flora Zambesiaca (Africa) region1
Each of the 60 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. 1 further reference is 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.
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No picture of Menelikia lyrocera 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 Menelikia lyrocera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Menelikia lyrocera was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMenelikia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1941