Pliohyracidae

Pliohyracidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
HyracoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Hyracoidea
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Hyracoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 50 of 88 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 88 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 11 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 11 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.9–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

88 occurrences of Pliohyracidae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

88 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

17 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EGlib Zegdou — 30.02°N, 4.00°WErageleit — 3.36°N, 35.80°EShumaysi — 21.68°N, 39.75°ELokone Sandstone — 2.22°N, 35.57°ETamaguélelt — 17.59°N, 0.25°ETamaguélelt — 17.59°N, 0.25°EMalembo — 5.34°S, 12.18°EAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EYuxian — 39.84°N, 114.60°EGusar suite — 39.50°N, 67.60°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°EYatagan — 37.34°N, 28.24°EAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°ETarab — 28.22°N, 13.87°EQasr el Sagha — 29.53°N, 30.53°E

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The named rock units Pliohyracidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliohyracidae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pliohyracidae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Pliohyracidae, 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

39 references

Each of the 88 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. 27 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 content1

Picture of Pliohyracidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pliohyracidae 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 itHyracoidea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matsumoto 1926