Parmularius pandatus
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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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Parmularius pandatus 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
15 occurrences- Pliocene77%
- Pleistocene23%
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
2 formations
- Vogel River Series Formation12
- Matabaietu Formation · Awash Group1
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The named rock units Parmularius pandatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parmularius pandatus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Parmularius pandatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Gazella12 sites
- Giraffa jumae12 sites
- Hipparion12 sites
- Ceratotherium11 sites
- Giraffa stillei11 sites
- Ceratotherium simum9 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus9 sites
- Loxodonta exoptata9 sites
- Parapapio ado9 sites
- Rhinocerotidae9 sites
- Canis8 sites
- Libytherium maurusium8 sites
- Saccostomus8 sites
- Tragelaphus8 sites
- Hyaenidae7 sites
- Paracolobus7 sites
- Crocuta6 sites
- Felis6 sites
- Francolinus6 sites
- Hippotragini6 sites
- Hominidae6 sites
- Stigmochelys brachygularis6 sites
- Alcelaphini5 sites
- Cercopithecidae5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Parmularius pandatus, 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
3 references- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania12
- Plio-Pleistocene terrestrial mammal assemblage from Konso, Southern Ethiopia2
- New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Parmularius pandatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parmularius pandatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parmularius pandatus 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gentry 1987