Neotragini

The tribe Neotragini comprises the dwarf antelopes of Africa:Dorcatragus Beira D. megalotis Madoqua Günther's dik-dik M. guentheri Kirk's dik-dik M. kirkii Silver dik-dik M. piacentinii Salt's dik-dik M. saltiana Neotragus Royal antelope N. pygmaeus Ourebia Oribi O. ourebi Raphicerus Steenbok R. campestris Cape grysbok R. melanotis Sharpe's grysbok R. sharpei

Neotragini

Mirko Raner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntilopinaePBDB
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 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 56 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 32 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Neotragini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

56 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

8 formations

Shungura — 5.11°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.02°N, 36.04°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°ESynthem CB1 — 42.79°N, 11.37°E

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The named rock units Neotragini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neotragini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neotragini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

493 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Neotragini, 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

40 references

Each of the 56 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. 28 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 content1

Picture of Neotragini

Credit
Mirko Raner
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neotragini 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sclater and Thomas 1894