Parabos

Parabos is an extinct genus of medium to large-sized bovine from the Early Pliocene of Europe. It is disputed whether or not it is an early diverging stem-group member of the tribe Bovini, or a member of the extinct tribe Tragoportacini. It is thought to be a close relative of the genus Alephis. Members of the genus were medium-large sized bovines with widely spaced horns that project parallel backwards from the skull. Largely complete specimens of Parabos tigneresi are known from the Camp dels Ninots lagerstatte in Spain.

Parabos

Leonardo Sorbelli · CC BY 4.0 · 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
BoselaphiniPBDB
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 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.0–4.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.2–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.333 Mya3.55 Mya9.2 Mya1.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Parabos on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

13 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

3 formations

Cigarron — 37.92°N, 1.16°WColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°W

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The named rock units Parabos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parabos and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Parabos and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Parabos, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Parabos

Credit
Leonardo Sorbelli
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itBoselaphini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg and Piveteau 1929