Ouranopithecus turkae
Ouranopithecus turkae is a prehistoric species of Ouranopithecus from the Late Miocene of Turkey.
No picture of Ouranopithecus turkae 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 Ouranopithecus turkae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GraecopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hominidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hominidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ouranopithecus turkae 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ouranopithecus turkae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ouranopithecus turkae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ouranopithecus turkae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Acerorhinus1 site
- Allocritecus aylasevimae1 site
- Amphimachairodus giganteus1 site
- Bohlinia attica1 site
- Byzantinia hellenicus1 site
- Byzantinia pikermiensis1 site
- Ceratotherium neumayri1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Choerolophodon pentelici1 site
- Criotherium1 site
- Ctenocervus1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Hansdebruijnia erksinae1 site
- Hansdebruijnia neutrum1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Hipparion prostylum1 site
- Hystrix kayae1 site
- Ictitherium1 site
- Keramidomys1 site
- Majoreas1 site
- Microstonyx major1 site
- Miotragocerus1 site
- Muridae1 site
- Mustelidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ouranopithecus turkae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ouranopithecus turkae 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 Ouranopithecus turkae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ouranopithecus turkae 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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What may have been alongside itGraecopithecus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gulec et al. 2007