Praedamalis
No picture of Praedamalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Praedamalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippotraginiPBDB
- 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 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Praedamalis 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Vogel River Series Formation6
- Wembere-Manonga Formation3
- Hadar Formation · Awash Group2
- Nawata or Nachukui Formation1
- Nachukui Formation1
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The named rock units Praedamalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Praedamalis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Praedamalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Ceratotherium8 sites
- Hipparion7 sites
- Loxodonta exoptata7 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi6 sites
- Gazella6 sites
- Giraffa stillei6 sites
- Cercopithecidae5 sites
- Damalacra5 sites
- Giraffa jumae5 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus5 sites
- Parapapio ado5 sites
- Alcelaphini4 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi4 sites
- Australopithecus afarensis4 sites
- Canis4 sites
- Ceratotherium simum4 sites
- Felis4 sites
- Francolinus4 sites
- Hominidae4 sites
- Libytherium maurusium4 sites
- Numida4 sites
- Nyanzachoerus kanamensis4 sites
- Paracolobus4 sites
- Parmularius pandatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Praedamalis, 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
4 references- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania6
- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania3
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa2
- Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-19732
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 content0
No picture of Praedamalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Praedamalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Praedamalis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHippotragini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dietrich 1950