Parmularius angusticornis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParmulariusPBDB
- 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 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Parmularius angusticornis 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
11 occurrences- Miocene12%
- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene64%
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 Formation3
- Humbu Formation · Peninj Group2
- Varswater & Bredasdorp Formation1
- Varswater Formation1
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The named rock units Parmularius angusticornis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parmularius angusticornis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Parmularius angusticornis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Equus8 sites
- Giraffa7 sites
- Alcelaphini6 sites
- Reduncini6 sites
- Ceratotherium simum5 sites
- Hippotragus niro5 sites
- Kobus5 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis5 sites
- Libytherium maurusium5 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros5 sites
- Bovini4 sites
- Crocodylus4 sites
- Diceros bicornis4 sites
- Felis4 sites
- Gazella4 sites
- Giraffa jumae4 sites
- Giraffa pygmaea4 sites
- Hipparion4 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki4 sites
- Alcelaphus kattwinkeli3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Connochaetes3 sites
- Connochaetes gentryi3 sites
- Connochaetes taurinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parmularius angusticornis, 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
9 references- Family Bovidae2
- The stratigraphy of the Peninj beds and the provenance of the Natron australopithecine mandible2
- Plio-Pleistocene terrestrial mammal assemblage from Konso, Southern Ethiopia1
- Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco1
- New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini1
- The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula1
- Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae1
- Paleoecology of the late Tertiary fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa and a reinterpretation of their geological context1
- Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in the south-western Cape Province1
Each of the 11 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 Parmularius angusticornis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parmularius angusticornis 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 itParmularius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schwarz 1937)