Palaeoloxodon recki

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoloxodonPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 261 occurrencesPliocene — about 39 of 261 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 221 of 261 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 261 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 38 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 31 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

261 occurrences of Palaeoloxodon recki 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

261 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

23 formations

Shungura — 5.06°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.03°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.04°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.23°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 4.21°N, 35.78°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.29°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.57°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.32°N, 40.55°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EMatabaietu — 10.30°N, 40.25°EMatabaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°ESagantole — 10.50°N, 40.58°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.43°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°E1 — 11.06°N, 42.28°EDanakil — 14.84°N, 39.87°EMursi — 5.44°N, 35.96°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°ERietputs — 28.53°S, 24.47°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°E

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The named rock units Palaeoloxodon recki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoloxodon recki and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Palaeoloxodon recki and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 250 sites for Palaeoloxodon recki, and this reads 240 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

70 references

Each of the 261 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. 58 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 content0

No picture of Palaeoloxodon recki was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Palaeoloxodon recki itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeoloxodon recki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Dietrich 1915)